The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard

This document sets out a classihcation system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based on acute risk to human health (i.e., the risk of single or multiple exposures over a relatively short period of time). It takes into consideration the toxicity of the technical compound and its common formulations. 

The document lists common technical grade pesticides and recommended classihcations together with a listing of active ingredients believed to be obsolete or discontinued for use as pesticides, pesticides subject to the prior informed consent procedure, limitations to trade because of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) convention (UN 2001), and gaseous or volatile fumigants not classified under these recommendations. 

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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. 

The WHO recommended classification of Pesticides by hazard and Guidelines to classification 2000-2002. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended classification of pesticides by hazard, first issued in 1978, has gained wide acceptance. The classification is based primarily on the acute oral and dermal toxicity to rats since these determinations are standard procedures in toxicology. 

WHO (2005) The World Health Organization recommended classification of pesticides by hazard. 

The Nobel Foundation (2006) http //nobelprize.org World Health Organisation Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard (2004), World Health Organisation http / / www.who.int/ipcs/pubHcations/pesticides hazard rev 3.pdf... 

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