The ICCA HPV initiative and Appe
At the end of 1998, the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) launched a voluntary global initiative to accelerate the process of data collection and hazard assessment for High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals in the frame of the OECD SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) programme. The completion of the dossiers for about 1,000 substances was foreseen by year 2004.
The cost of generating data and the work to draft the assessments was shared, whenever possible, by ICCA member companies in international consortia.
As a starting point, a list of chemicals being high production volume in at least three world regions (EU, USA, Japan) was drawn. Some of these HPV chemicals, being already data-rich, were discarded.
The commitments of the companies were registered on-line, on a web-based tracking system.
On the ICCA/HPV list (1,325 chemicals), the percentage of commitment for Appe-related products reached 91.5 %, the general chemical industry percentage of commitment being 70.3 %.
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