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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.
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Guidance on a strategy for genotoxicity testing and mutagenic hazard assessment of impurities in chemical substances.
Controlled chemicals, drug precursor chemicals and hazardous chemicals.
This series brings together all documents relating to Chemicals: risk reduction strategies
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Details about the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) defence exemption process within the MOD.
Resource for the public and those professionals responding to chemical incidents, including emergency services and public health professionals.
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.
Requesting comments on draft Stockholm Convention proposals for 3 chemical substances.
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
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.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Five guidance statements on testing chemicals with no or inadequate genotoxicity data.
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