Australia’s industrial chemicals regulator completed a review of its existing chemicals assessment program, which includes a recommendation to consider international best practices as it studies the potential risks posed by thousands of substances.
The National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) released a report July 11 on a review of its Inventory Multitiered Assessment and Prioritization (IMAP) program, which assesses the risks that chemicals listed on the Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS) pose.
The review found that NICNAS published 4,315 human health or environmental assessments of 3,215 AICS-listed chemicals between 2012 and 2015, during Stage One of its ...
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