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Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care. NICE is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care .
When you must tell the Environment Agency that you're storing material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and how to do it.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to notify stockpiles of material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and a form for reporting them to the Environment Agency.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Requesting comments on draft risk profiles and risk management evaluations for 5 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.
Requesting comments on a draft risk profile and risk management evaluations for 3 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.
Requesting information for a draft risk management evaluation for chlorpyrifos, a substance proposed as a POP to the UN’s POPs Review Committee.
Collecting information for risk management evaluations for 2 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee.
Project Orbis is a programme to review and approve promising cancer drugs helping patients access treatments faster.
Information about the risks of taking valproate medicines during pregnancy.
This report is concerned with advice on the issue of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), sometimes known as ‘legal highs’.
The European Trade Mark and Design Network has updated its common practice on the general indications of the Nice classification headings in accordance with European Union Trade Mark Regulation No. 2015/2424.
Draft proposal to list chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14-17 and chlorination levels ≥45% chlorine by weight as a persistent organic pollutant (POP).
Seeking information from industry on the use of four existing persistent organic pollutants.
Statement from Public Health England (PHE) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on vitamin D supplementation during winter.
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