Chemical safety in a vulnerable world

3 June 2021

| Technical document

Overview

The risks connected with chemical substances have been assessed in a number of conventions that have aimed to apply

restrictions on the use of dangerous chemicals, and control of their worldwide trade. The developments in chemicals

policy at the European and world level are discussed, with an insight into the interlaced structure of international cooperation that exists at both the political and the technical level.

WHO Team

Chemical Safety and Health Unit (CHE)

Editors

S. Dàrtner, J. Küllmer, U. Schlottmann, Angewandte Chemie

Number of pages