Chemical Risk Assessment Methodology
Chemical Risk Assessment Methodology
The World Health Organization (WHO) International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) has published new information about its Project on Harmonization of Approaches to Assessment of Risk from Exposure to Chemicals (Harmonization Project). New materials include:
a brochure outlining a workplan of new activities on international harmonization of risk assessment methodologies
the August 2007 newsletter, providing updates on activities already underway
an updated strategic plan
the record of the 8th Harmonization Project Steering Committee
These documents and more detailed information on each of the activities already underway are accessible from the WHO project webpage at <www.who.int/ipcs/methods/harmonization/en>.
IPCS has also released the draft document Mutagenicity Testing for Chemical Risk Assessment for public review, with comments due by 23 November 2007. The document may be downloaded at <www.who.int/ipcs/methods/harmonization/areas/
For more information, contact Carolyn Vickers at <vickersc@who.int>.
How does this relate to IUPAC?
Michel Mercier, the first director of IPCS, was a founding member of the former IUPAC Commission on Toxicology. Many of the original members had concerns about the toxicity of metals, an issue that continues to generate interest and that recently culminated in the IUPAC definition of “chemical speciation.” The definition is crucial to current developments that focus on the differential toxicity of the different chemical species of metallic elements. The current developments in turn, revealed a need to develop new analytical techniques to identify these species and to characterize exposures that may or may not be harmful. (see Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 72, No. 8, pp. 1453–1470, 2000)
Following the IUPAC initiative on chemical speciation, a number of members of the former commission and the current Subcommittee on Toxicology and Risk Assessment contributed to a recent IPCS Environmental Health Criteria Document, EHC 234, Elemental Speciation in Human Health Risk Assessment (2006).
Interested in terminology, John H. Duffus (IUPAC Subcommittee on Toxicology and Risk Assessment; Edinburgh Centre for Toxicology), prepared a text on toxicology for IPCS courses; he discovered that the lack of an agreed upon terminology cost participants at international meetings a great deal of time—often as much as a day.
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- Masthead
- From the Editor
- Contents
- Why on Earth Be(come) an IUPAC Member?
- IUPAC in Torino, Italy
- Part I: Their Role in Society
- Nanotechnology–The New Chemistry
- For a Healthy Smile . . .
- Performance Materials: A Symposium and New Award
- 2008 IUPAC–Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry: Call for Nominations
- IUPAC to Support the International Chemistry Olympiad
- Standard Atomic Weights Revised
- Release of InChI Version 1.02 beta; Introducing InChIKey
- Chemical Risk Assessment Methodology
- A Tribute to Professor Aubrey D. Jenkins
- Errata
- Herding AnIMLs (no, it’s not a spelling mistake): Update on the IUPAC and ASTM Collaboration on Analytical Data Standards
- Multiple Uses of Chemicals: Clear Choices or Dodgy Deals?
- Establishing an East Asian Network for Organic Chemistry
- Critically Evaluated Rate Coefficients for Free-Radical Polymerization Part 6: Propagation Rate Coefficient of Methacrylic Acid in Aqueous Solution (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Explanatory Dictionary of Key Terms in Toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)
- Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry: 3rd edition
- Natural Product Chemistry at a Glance
- Macromolecules for a Sustainable, Safe, and Healthy World
- Provisional Recommendations
- Molecules that Matter
- Environmental Technology and Renewable Energy
- Data Mining
- Thermophysical Properties
- Luminescence Spectrometry
- Green Chemistry
- Mark Your Calendar
- Index for 2007
