Publications

Latest publications

• Harmonization Document No. 10 - Guidance for Immunotoxicity Risk Assessment for Chemicals
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• Mercury in skin lightening products
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• Risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals: A WHO/IPCS framework
• Burden of disease attributable to chemicals

Publication series

• Concise international chemical assessment documents
  
  Based on selected high-quality national or regional evaluations; they characterize hazard and dose-response from exposure to a chemical.
  
  

• Environmental health criteria
  Provides assessments of the effects of chemicals on human health and the environment; they are designed for scientific experts responsible for risk evaluation, enabling relevant authorities to establish policies for the safe use of these chemicals.

• Harmonization project
  Provides globally harmonized approaches to risk assessment by increasing understanding and developing basic principles and guidance on specific chemical risk assessment issues.

• Health and safety guides
  Provides concise information on risks from exposure to chemicals, with practical advice on medical and administrative issues; they are designed for a wide range of administrators, managers, and decision-makers.

• International chemical safety cards
  Summarizes essential product identity data and health and safety information on chemicals; they are designed for use at shop-floor level, in factories, agriculture and other work places.

• Newsletters
• Pesticide data sheets
  Contains health and safety information on pesticide that are widely used in public health programmes and/or agriculture, and have high or unusual toxicity records.
• Training
• Publications relevant to the risk assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Other relevant publications

• Endocrine disruptors
• Integrated risk assessment
• World Health Assembly and Executive Board Resolutions relevant to the work of IPCS
• WHO Workshop Report on Mechanisms of Fibre Carcinogenesis and Assessment of Chrysotile Asbestos Substitutes
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• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs