Publications
Key publications
Chemical pollution of indoor air and its risk for children’s health: educational course (2021)
Supplementary publication to the screening tool for assessment of health risks from combined exposure to multiple chemicals in indoor air in public settings for children
Development of a screening tool for assessment of risks from combined exposure to multiple chemicals in indoor air: expert consultations and pilot testing
This publication describes how the screening tool has been developed and its pilot testing in Budapest, Hungary (24 May and 17 October 2019), Tallinn, Estonia (24–25 October 2019), Minsk, Belarus (11 November 2019), and in Bonn, Germany (9 July 2020).
Towards a tool for assessment of cumulative risks from indoor air pollutants in public settings for children: the second expert consultation Meeting report (2020)
The main outcomes of the consultation were approaches to the assessment of exposure and handling of toxicological information for the calculation of risks.
Health sector involvement in chemicals management: implementation of the WHO Chemicals Road Map at a national level (2020)
The subregional meeting on 11– 12 February 2020 in Minsk, Belarus, aimed to assist central and eastern European countries in prioritizing actions to enhance the management of hazardous chemicals at a national level, and in planning activities to implement them.
Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: standard operating procedures (2018)
This document consists of standard operating procedures describing the assessment of mercury in hair, cord blood and urine. The document also provides information on alternative methods that can be used for analysis of mercury. Also available in French.
Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: human biomonitoring survey (2018)
This publication describes the design of a survey for assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury using human biomonitoring.
National chemicals registers and inventories: benefits and approaches to development (2017)
The aim of this publication is to describe approaches for setting up national chemicals registers and how they improve sound chemicals management.
Chemical policy and programmes to protect human health and environment in a sustainability perspective (2017)
Report of a WHO Meeting in Bonn, Germany, 4-5 July 2016
Asbestos: economic assessment of bans and declining production and consumption (2017)
This publication assesses the economic impact of declines in asbestos production and consumption and banning of asbestos use.
Chemical safety and protection of human health: the Slovenian experience (2016)
This publication provides information on how the chemicals management system in Slovenia was built and how it works now, and the opportunities and limitations of putting the chemicals authority in the public health sector.
