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Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
Guidance on a strategy for genotoxicity testing and mutagenic hazard assessment of impurities in chemical substances.
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Resource for the public and those professionals responding to chemical incidents, including emergency services and public health professionals.
Requesting comments on draft Stockholm Convention proposals for 3 chemical substances.
This series brings together all documents relating to Chemicals: risk reduction strategies
Details about the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) defence exemption process within the MOD.
Controlled chemicals, drug precursor chemicals and hazardous chemicals.
Information companies placing hazardous mixtures on the UK market (such as manufacturers, importers, downstream users and distributors) should submit to the National Poisons Information Service.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
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