PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT FROM CHEMICALS – WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE PERSPECTIVE

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 75 - 75, 16.02.2017

Elizabet Paunovıc

Abstract

WHO Regional
Office for Europe, through WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (WHO
ECEH) contributes to the implementation of some global initiatives in the area
of chemical safety, especially through to the implementation of  multilateral global and regional agreements,
such as Strategic Approach to Chemicals management (SAICM), International
Health Regulations (IHR), and Parma Declaration on Environment and Health
and  encouraging national governments and
international organizations to develop policies and strengthen legislation to
protect human health and the environment from negative impacts of chemicals.

In the
sustainable development perspective, the chemicals and health agenda needs to
expand beyond addressing immediate health impacts of exposures, to take into
account indirect implications of chemicals throughout their life cycle,
including resource use, controlling occupational and environmental exposures,
while enhancing healthy workplaces and fair social conditions. The assessment
performed by WHO ECEH in 2015, showed that only few countries specifically
addressed exposures and risks prevention from priority carcinogenic, mutagenic
and reprotoxic chemicals and endocrine disrupting chemicals, and less than half
of the countries have a legal basis for prohibition of use of dangerous
chemicals in products destined to children and protection of places where
children learn and play.

Promoting consideration of human health impacts of chemicals throughout
their life-cycle in a sustainability perspective is of utmost importance.
Exploring health, environmental and social benefits of the sustainable
production and use of chemicals in line with a ‘non-toxic environment’ concept
should pave the way forward

Keywords

PROTECTING HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT FROM CHEMICALS – WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE PERSPECTIVE

References

• Elizabet PAUNOVIC Head of WHO European Center for Environment and Health, Bonn