Saving Costs in Chemicals Management How the OECD Ensures Benefits to Society

The chemical industry is one of the largest industrial sectors in the world and is expected to grow fourfold by 2060. Indeed modern life without chemicals would be inconceivable. Given the potential environmental and human health risks from exposure to chemicals, governments and industry have a majo...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2019
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Non-quantifiable benefits of the Environment, Health and Safety Programme
  • Responses from the survey of governments and industry
  • About the OECD
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • RPA analysis of the cost of testing and (Q)SARs based on data from the European Chemicals Agency's Registration Database
  • Introduction to the OECD Environment, Health and Safety Programme
  • Quantifying the costs and savings of the OECD Environment, Health and Safety Programme
  • Conclusions
  • Countries and regions used in this report
  • Foreword
  • Executive summary