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Guidance statement detailing the committee's set of principles to guide the risk assessment process for less than lifetime scenario.
Information on the exemption process to allow the use in cosmetic products of substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction.
The government will place 6 new synthetic opioids under the strictest level of control.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
This report series contains substantial scientific work carried out by the Health Protection Agency Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division.
An interim position paper on the safety of hydroxyanthracene derivatives for use in food by the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
This document (RCE-3) presents the conclusions of a review of the basis for establishing health-based protection criteria in the areas of chemicals, ionising radiation, and non-ionising radiation.
This series brings together all documents relating to Chemicals: risk reduction strategies
Information on the risks from low levels of ionising radiation.
Documents relating to ionising and non-ionising radiation, chemical and environmental hazards and the Advisory Groups on Ionising (AGIR) and Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR).
We give statutory advice to ministers on the risks to human health and the environment from the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). ACRE is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs...
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) is an independent scientific committee that provides advice to the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and other government bodies on matters concerning the toxicity...
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