Chemical Safety
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Chemical Safety is achieved by undertaking all activities involving chemicals in such a way as to ensure the safety of human health and the environment. It covers all chemicals, natural and manufactured, and the full range of exposure situations from the natural presence of chemicals in the environment to their extraction or synthesis, industrial production, transport use and disposal.
Chemical safety has many scientific and technical components. Among these are toxicology, ecotoxicology and the process of chemical risk assessment which requires a detailed knowledge of exposure and of biological effects.
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Chemicals of public health concern in the African Region and their management: Regional Assessment Report
This report presents the outcome of a regionwide, comprehensive assessment of chemicals and their management in the WHO African Region. It describes the main ch…
