Chemical substances control law

Bioconcentration Prediction under the Amended Chemical Substances Control Law of Japan

At the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in February 2006, the “Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)” was adopted, and over one hundred countries around the world reached agreement to “minimize significant adverse effects from production and use of chemicals on human health and the environment b...

Chemical “ Substances ” That Are Not “ Chemical Substances ”

The main scientific problems of chemical bonding were solved half a century ago, but adequate philosophical understanding of chemical combination is yet to be achieved. Chemists routinely use important terms (“element,” “atom,” “molecule,” “substance”) with more than one meaning. This can lead to misunderstandings. Eliminativists claim that what seems to be a baseball breaking a window is merel...

The law of toxic substances.

The law of toxic substances dates back to Medieval England, but the present comprehensive federal regulatory scheme was developed over the past two decades. This article presents a brief overview of the federal law of air and water pollution, solid waste control, and the regulation of chemicals.

On Tumor-Producing Chemical Substances*

The following is a review of the studies carried out in this laboratory during the past seven or eight years with the view of (a) elucidating the effect of certain exogenous tumor-producing chemical agents and (b) ascertaining the presence within the human body of chemical substances that may call forth the formation of tumors. The present review is based in the main on the results obtained by ...

Naming and Indexing of Chemical Substances for Chemical Abstracts