International Programme on Chemical Safety IPCS

WHO (World Health Organization). 1996. International Programme on Chemical Safety IPCS) The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 1996-1997. Geneva. 

Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are published by the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) — a cooperative programme of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). CICADs have been developed from the Environmental Health Criteria documents (EHCs), more than 200 of which have been published since 1976 as authoritative documents on the risk assessment of chemicals. 

International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) (1994) Environmental Health Criteria 161. Phenol. World Health Organisation, Geneva... 

Chemical risk assessments are carried out by many national and international bodies, including major actors such as the World Health Organization (WHO) - particularly the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), the OECD, the Unites States, and the European Union (EU). The efforts undertaken by these major acting bodies in terms of chemical risk assessments are reflected in this book. 

The IPCS INCHEM was produced through cooperation between the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), and directly responds to one of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) priority actions to consolidate current, internationally peer-reviewed chemical safety-related publications and database records from international bodies, for public access (IPCS INCHEM 2007). 

The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) has undertaken a project to harmonize approaches to the assessment of risk from exposure to chemicals through increased understanding. The project focuses on specific issues and attempts to achieve agreement on basic principles. Among the project s focus areas are exposure assessment and terminology for exposure assessment and risk assessment. The status for the activities of the harmonization project is published in a newsletter (WHO/IPCS 2007). 

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