ABSTRACT
In 1990, the Chemicals Group and Management Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) proposed a new cooperative approach to chemical risk management.
The new risk reduction approach had to involve international cooperation to develop and implement measured responses to deal with unacceptable risks to both health and/or the environment through national application of various instruments appropriate to the values and the risks identified.1,2
One of the first steps was an OECD meeting held in March 1990 in Stockholm to develop further ideas in risk management. Shortly prior to this meeting a notice was published in Nature describing the Swedish view on ‘Sunset chemicals’3-the current outcome of this concept are outlined by Knight and also in Chapter 11.
