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This section describes the range of mechanisms that control the use, reduction and cessation hazardous chemicals and priority substances.
Information for consumers.
A joint guidance statement from the Committees on carcinogenicity, on toxicity, and on mutagenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment (COC, COT, COM).
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
A guide to the international regulations on the transportation of dangerous goods by air, sea, road, rail or inland waterway.
Five guidance statements on testing chemicals with no or inadequate genotoxicity data.
Information for professionals involved in reducing health harms associated with air pollution.
Legal rights for pregnant employees - including paid time off for antenatal appointments, maternity leave and pay, protection against discrimination and telling the employer about the pregnancy.
Guidance and recommendations from the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM).
Reports relating to radiation, and chemicals and poisons topics.
A guidance statement on identifying cancer effects of chemicals and characterising the dose-response relationship of these effects.
Information on bromine, for responding to chemical incidents.
Recommendations for sampling and analysis for aflatoxin contamination in compound products containing nuts.
A guidance statement from the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC).
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.
Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) screening of low production volume substances.
Information on the exemption process to allow the use in cosmetic products of substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction.
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
COMEAP statement on the evidence for differential health effects of particulate matter according to source or components.
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