Harmonizing regulatory approach

Occupational and Residential Exposure Assessment for Pesticides - Towards a Harmonized Regulatory Approach... 

HARMONIZED REGULATORY APPROACH FOR EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT 361 Table 10.4 Average acres treated per full workday for various crops... 

ASSESSMENT OF RISKS TO HUMANS EXPOSED TO PESTICIDES 2 The Four Steps in Risk Assessment 2 Hazard Identification 2 Dose-Response Assessment 3 Margin of Safety Approach 3 Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 Exposure Assessment 4 Risk Characterization 4 RISK MANAGEMENT 5 ADVANCES IN DATA INTERPRETATION 5 Probabilistic Approaches 5 Recognition of the Tier Approach 5 Aggregate Exposure 6 Cumulative Exposure 6 Impact of New Scientific Advances 7 Post-Registration Monitoring 7 HARMONIZATION OF REGULATORY APPROACHES SUMMARY 9... 

The harmonized elements of the GHS may be seen as a collection of building blocks from which to form a regulatory approach for chemical hazard communication within the workplace, for the transportation system, for those involved in chemical work-related activities, and for consumers. 

Europe and Asia. A similar set of requirements, the European Utility Requirements (EUR), is being prepared by major European utilities. Various efforts to develop regulatory approaches for future reactors and to harmonize those approaches are underway in many countries, in some cases with co-ordination provided by the IAEA or the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA). 

RoHS is based on EC Treaty article 95, which creates a single market Directive that aims to harmonize EU legislation. It requires a common regulatory approach, thereby preventing the adoption of different restriction levels by different countries and different product standards. 

Because PMRA and the US regulatory agencies are working closely together on registration harmonization under NAFTA, the US s approach for implementing EDS... 

The approach to exposure assessment is not as internationally harmonized as hazard assessment. A synopsis of current activities regarding exposure assessment for industrial chemicals in a number of OECD Member countries has been published (OECD 2006). The executive summary of this document states that while there is a significant level of sharing of approaches used for hazard characterization for risk assessment, this is not the case for exposure characterization. Although broad consistency in the overall approaches used by different countries in conducting exposure assessment exists, there is variation in policy-related factors, including the regulatory context for assessment and the way that information is applied, as well as in the types of approaches and tools used. 

---