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SAICM Brief Explores Costing Tools for Sound Chemicals Management

In a new policy brief, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) shows how governments are

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WEF Paper Guides Trade Facilitation of More Circular Electronics Industry

In a new white paper titled, ‘Facilitating Trade Along Circular Electronics Value Chains,’ the World Economic

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OECD, Experts Discuss Access to Information on Chemical Safety

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosted a webinar on its eChemPortal, which aims to

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Experts Discuss Success Factors in Regulating Lead in Paint

The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint Alliance) held a webinar for policymakers on eliminating

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WHO Makes Case for Laws to Eliminate Lead Paint

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a policy brief and accompanying technical brief on eliminating

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Lead Paint Alliance Highlights Success Stories Ahead of Week of Action

Ahead of the eighth International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (Lead Paint

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Used Vehicles and the Environment

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UNEP

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October 2020

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Used Vehicles and the Environment - A Global Overview of Used Light Duty Vehicles: Flow, Scale and RegulationMillions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the USA and Japan to low- and middle-income countries are hindering efforts to combat climate change. They are contributing to air pollution and are often involved in road accidents. Many of them are of poor quality and would fail road-worthiness tests in the exporting countries.A landmark, first-of-its-kind United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Circularity

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Pharmaceuticals in drinking-water

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World Health Organization

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June 2012

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This WHO technical report focuses on reviewing the risks to human health associated with exposure to trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking-water. Pharmaceuticals are synthetic or natural chemicals that can be found in prescription medicines, over-the-counter therapeutic drugs and veterinary drugs. Pharmaceuticals contain active ingredients that have been designed to have pharmacological effects and confer significant benefits to society. Traces of pharmaceuticals, typically at levels in the nanograms to low micrograms per litre range, have been reported in the water

Emerging Policy Issues: Pharmaceutical pollutants

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State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - 2012

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World Health Organization UNEP

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February 2013

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This document done by a group of experts for the United Nations Environment Programme and World Health Organization provides the global status of scientific knowledge on exposure to and effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).The work is based on the fact that endocrine systems are very similar across vertebrate species and that endocrine effects manifest themselves independently of species. The effects are endocrine system related and not necessarily species dependent. Effects shown in wildlife or experimental animals may also occur

Emerging Policy Issues: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

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The impacts of endocrine disrupters on wildlife, people and their environments

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EEA

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May 2012

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The Weybridge+15 (1996-2011) technical report of the Europrean Environment Agency. Rates of endocrine diseases and disorders, such as some reproductive and developmental harm in human populations, have changed in line with the growth of the chemical industry, leading to concerns that these factors may be linked. For example, the current status of semen quality in the few European countries where studies have been systematically conducted, is very poor: fertility in approximately 40 % of men is impaired. There is also

Emerging Policy Issues: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals