ISO 14001, released in 1996, provides the basic framework for the establishment of an Environmental Management System (EMS) that can be audited and certi¢ed. ISO is not only an acronym for the International Organization for Standardization, but is also a term that refers to its Greek meaning: ‘equal.’ The main rationale for the creation of ISO 14001 was that its worldwide acceptance should faci...

Florent L. Besson,1,2,3,4 Renaud La Joie,1,2,3,5 Loïc Doeuvre,1,2,3,5 Malo Gaubert,1,2,3,5 Florence Mézenge,1,2,3,5 Stéphanie Egret,1,2,3,5 Brigitte Landeau,1,2,3,5 Louisa Barré,6 Ahmed Abbas,1,2,3,5 Meziane Ibazizene,6 Vincent de La Sayette,1,2,3,5,7 Béatrice Desgranges,1,2,3,5 Francis Eustache,1,2,3,5 and Gaël Chételat1,2,3,5 1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité U...

Abstract Environmental Management Systems (EMS) represent a solid opportunity for companies that voluntarily undertake path towards the adoption of environmental protection policies. Many studies investigated link between EMS and improvement performance, demonstrating how an international standard as ISO 14000 or EMAS guarantees company in its performance increase transparency stakeholders. How...

Thailand, the economic growth of which largely depends on agriculture-based industry, recognizes the importance of international standards for harmonization of international food trade and for protection of human health from chemicals used as food additives or those present as contaminants. Pesticides which are widely used in Thailand are the anticholinesterase pesticides, pyrethroids, coumarin...

In recent years there have been many approaches to understand the cross-country diffusion rate of the most common environmental management standards issued by the International Organization for Standardization, the ISO 14000 series, due to their spectacular growth around the world, even though a certain saturation has been detected in some countries. However, few studies have shed light on the ...