Peter Fisk 
Chemical Risk Assessment [EPUB ebook] 
A Manual for REACH

This book is an essential guide and support to
understanding of the science and policy, procedure and practice
that underpins the REACH risk assessments required for the use and
placing on the market of chemicals in the European Union. A clear
understanding of information provision and how this affects the
assessment of chemical safety is fundamentally important to the
success of policy on chemicals and ultimately to the sustainability
of the chemicals industry.
Within the book, the scientific processes that underpin the
policy are explained in a practical way. Importantly,
it includes coverage of techniques to help solve the problems of
using potentially risky and hazardous chemicals through the use of
less hazardous alternatives and ‚green chemistry‘, and
also the analysis of the risks of the use of the most hazardous
substances against the social and economic benefits of
use.
Chemical Risk Assessment: A Manual for REACH covers
the following main themes: i) Assessment of chemical risk; ii)
Risk management; iii) Hazard reduction, substitution and green
chemistry; iv) Risk versus benefit – socio-economic
analysis.
The book acts as a practical guide and overview to
chemicals risk assessment and risk management (in the EU context),
as well as a support text for planning for the challenges of the
future, which will see ever-increasing pressure to withdraw
hazardous substances from the EU (and global) market, balanced
against opportunities for innovation in the development of less
hazardous chemicals.

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