Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC)

The HSAC provides expert, objective advice on the science behind hazardous chemicals.

The Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC) provides expert advice on how to protect the environment, and human health via the environment, from potentially hazardous substances and articles, including nanomaterials.

HSAC is the successor body to the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (ACHS). ACHS was abolished on 22 July 2012, with the coming into force of the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (Abolition) Order 2012 (Statutory Instrument No 2012/1923).

Terms of reference

Terms of reference (last updated May 2012)

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Membership

Membership details

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Code of practice

Code of practice

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Meetings

Meetings are open to the public. Please contact us if you would like to attend.

An agenda and papers for the meeting will be published here a few days before each meeting.

Provisional dates:

The meeting scheduled for 12 March 2019 has been postponed.

Minutes and papers

• Twenty-second meeting: 11 September 2018 (ZIP, 1.02MB)

• Workshop: 12 to 13 June 2018 (ZIP, 7.4MB)

• Twenty-first meeting: 27 March 2018 (ZIP, 3.54MB)

• Twentieth meeting: 12 December 2017 (ZIP, 764KB)

• Nineteenth meeting: 19 September 2017 (ZIP, 602KB)

• Eighteenth meeting: 13 June 2017 (ZIP, 395KB)

For minutes of previous meetings including for ACHS and other documents, please see The National Archives webpages.

Publications

• 2016 annual report (PDF, 617KB, 48 pages)

• HSAC paper on definition of lifecycle/value chain in relation to nanomaterials and other manufactured substances (PDF, 246KB, 5 pages)

• HSAC working paper: guidance - characterising pharmaceutical of concern in the environment (PDF, 633KB, 8 pages)

• HSAC paper on key research questions in ecotoxicology (PDF, 315KB, 4 pages)

• Considering evidence: The approach taken by the HSAC in the UK (PDF, 745KB, 9 pages)

• HSAC comments on Dechlorane Plus fact sheet (PDF, 69.5KB, 2 pages)

• HSAC comment on BSI nanotechnology standards (PDF, 86.2KB, 2 pages)

• HSAC review of NanoREG data gaps and research needs (PDF, 354KB, 3 pages)

• HSAC comments: MERAG fact sheets on environmental risk assessment of metals (PDF, 338KB, 4 pages)

• HSAC response to the public consultation on identifying endocrine disruptors (PDF, 139KB, 4 pages)

• Comments on Kortenkamp et al (2012) “State Of The Art Assessment Of Endocrine Disrupters" (PDF, 383KB, 4 pages)

• HSAC opinion on nanoscience (PDF, 221KB, 12 pages)

• HSAC statement on the use of animals in chemical testing (PDF, 58.3KB, 3 pages)

• HSAC approach on hazard and risk assessment of substances (PDF, 771KB, 16 pages)

• ACHS opinion on decabrominated diphenyl ether (decaBDE) (PDF, 465KB, 63 pages)

Contact details

chemicals.strategy@defra.gsi.gov.uk