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About this book
This book is an essential guide and support to understanding of the science and policy, procedure and practice that underpins the REACH risk assessments required for the use and placing on the market of chemicals in the European Union. A clear understanding of information provision and how this affects the assessment of chemical safety is fundamentally important to the success of policy on chemicals and ultimately to the sustainability of the chemicals industry.
Within the book, the scientific processes that underpin the policy are explained in a practical way. Importantly, it includes coverage of techniques to help solve the problems of using potentially risky and hazardous chemicals through the use of less hazardous alternatives and 'green chemistry', and also the analysis of the risks of the use of the most hazardous substances against the social and economic benefits of use.
Chemical Risk Assessment: A Manual for REACH covers the following main themes: i) Assessment of chemical risk; ii) Risk management; iii) Hazard reduction, substitution and green chemistry; iv) Risk versus benefit – socio-economic analysis.
The book acts as a practical guide and overview to chemicals risk assessment and risk management (in the EU context), as well as a support text for planning for the challenges of the future, which will see ever-increasing pressure to withdraw hazardous substances from the EU (and global) market, balanced against opportunities for innovation in the development of less hazardous chemicals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Policy and Scientific Context of Chemicals Risk and Risk Management
- Chapter 2: Roles and Responsibilities in REACH
- Chapter 3: Control of Chemicals – Legislative and Policy Context
- Chapter 4: Identification of Substances for REACH – Practicalities
- Chapter 5: Physico-Chemical Properties for REACH – Purpose and Practicalities
- Chapter 6: Assessing and Documenting the Intrinsic Properties of Substances in REACH
- Chapter 7: Assessing Environmental Properties Data
- Chapter 8: Environmental Exposure
- Chapter 9: Assessing the Hazards to Human Health from Chemicals
- Chapter 10: Human Exposure to Chemicals
- Chapter 11: Managing Hazard and Risk
- Chapter 12: Avoiding the Use of Hazardous Substances: Substitution and Alternatives
- Chapter 13: Hazards, Risks and Impacts—The Development and Application of Frameworks for the Assessment of Risk
- Chapter 14: Socio-Economic Analysis in REACH
- Chapter 15: REACH: How It Is Working and May Develop
- Chapter 16: Resources, Official Guidance, Further Reading and Centres of Expertise
- Appendix A: Substance Classification and Labelling under REACH
- Appendix B: Further Discussion of Substance Identification and Sameness
- Appendix C: Tools for REACH Compliance: IUCLID, Chesar and In-House Databases
- Appendix D: Glossary
- Index