ACGIH |
American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists |
ADI |
Acceptable Daily Intake |
AEGL |
Acute Exposure Guidelines
Levels (in the U.S.) |
ALARA-principle |
As Low As Reasonably
Achievable |
AWI |
Approved Work Item for a
new International Standard or a revision, no working draft yet available (ISO) |
BAT |
Best Available Technique |
BEP |
Best Environmental
Practice |
BIAC |
Business and Industry
Advisory Committee to the OECD |
BREF |
BAT Reference document |
BUA |
Beratergremium für
Umweltrelevante Altstoffe |
CA |
Competent Authority |
CAD |
(EU) Chemical Agents
Directive |
CAP |
Common Agricultural Policy |
CAS |
Chemical Abstracts System |
CD |
Committee Draft of a new
International Standard or a revision (ISO) |
CEFIC |
European Chemical Industry
Council |
CICAD |
Concise International
Chemical Assessment Documents from IPCS (global programme following Rio earth summit) |
C & L |
Classification and
labelling |
CMT |
Carcinogenic, Mutagenic,
Teratogenic substances |
COMMPS |
Combined Monitoring and
Modelling-based Priority Setting (within water framework Directive, and risk assessment of
existing chemicals) |
CONCAWE |
The oil companies European
organisations for environment and health protection. |
CP |
Contact Point (for
priority substances in Risk Assessment) |
CRAR |
Comprehensive Risk
Assessment Report |
DECOS |
Dutch Expert Committee on
Occupational Standards |
DIS |
Draft International
Standard (new International Standard or a revision) (ISO) |
DYNAMEC |
Dynamic selection and
prioritisation mechanism in order to rank candidate hazardous substances |
ECB |
European Chemical Bureau
in the Joint Research Centre at ISPRA, Italy |
ECDIN |
Environmental Chemicals
Data and Information Network |
ECETOC |
European Centre for
Eco-toxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals |
EHC |
Environmental Health
Criteria Monograph |
EINECS |
European Inventory of
Existing Commercial Chemical Substances. |
ELINCS |
European list of notified
new chemical substances |
ESR |
Existing Substances
Regulation |
EUEB |
European Union
Eco-labelling Board |
EURAM |
European Risk Ranking
Method (for establishing 4th list of priority substances in the high production
volume chemicals programme) |
EUSES |
European Union System for
the Evaluation of Substances |
FDIS |
Final Draft International
Standard (new International Standard or a revision) (ISO) |
GREAT-ER |
Geography Referenced
Regional Exposure Assessment Tool for European Rivers |
HACCP |
Hazard Analysis and
Critical Control Point system |
HEDSET |
Harmonised electronic data
set. |
HPV |
High Production Volume
chemicals |
HWL |
Hazardous Waste List |
IARC |
International Agency for
Research on Cancer |
ICCA |
International Council of
Chemical Associations |
ILO |
International Labor Office |
ILV |
Indicative Limit Value |
IPCS |
International Programme on
Chemical Safety (WHO) (global programme, complementary to OECD, focus on hazard
assessment). See also CICAD |
IRPTC |
International Register of
Potentially Toxic Chemicals, now UNEP chemicals |
IUCLID |
International Uniform
Chemical Information Database. Data bank based on HEDSET, handled by ECB (European
Chemical Bureau) and JRC (Joint Research Centre) in Ispra. |
JRC |
(EU) Joint Research
Centre, in Ispra (Italy) |
LC |
Lead Company (for priority
substances in Risk Assessment) |
LOAEL |
The "lowest observed
adverse effect level" is the lowest concentration or amount of a substance, found by
experiment or observation, which causes an adverse alteration of morphology, functional
capacity, growth, development, or life span of a target organism distinguishable from
normal (control) organisms of the same species and strain under defined conditions of
exposure (WHO, 1979). |
LOEC |
(Lowest Observed Effect
Concentration) : The lowest test concentration at which a chemical is observed to have a
"statistically significant" effect on test organisms. |
LRI |
Long-range Health and
Environmental Research Initiative |
MACT |
Maximum Achievable Control
Technology (US) |
MEL |
Maximum Exposure Limit |
MOS |
Margin of Safety, derived
from PEC/PNEC-ratio |
MS |
Member States |
MSDS |
Material Safety Data
Sheets |
NESHAP |
National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (US) |
NEWG |
National Experts Working
Group (ou SCOEL) |
NOAEL |
The "no observed
adverse effect level is the greatest concentration or amount of a substance, found by
experiment or observation, which causes no detectable adverse alteration of morphology,
functional capacity, growth, development, or life span of the target organism under
defined conditions of exposure (WHO, 1979). |
NOT |
Notification on a risk
(like "skin" for skin sensibilizing) |
NP |
New Work Item Proposal for
a new International Standard or a revision (ISO) |
OEL |
Occupational Exposure
Limit |
OSHA |
(US) Occupational Safety
and Health Administration |
OSHMS |
Occupational Safety and
Health Management System |
PEC |
"Predicted
Environmental Concentration" : estimated environmental concentration based on either
measured or calculated data. |
PNEC |
"Predicted No Effect
Concentration" : environmental concentration which is regarded as a level below which
the balance of probability is that an unacceptable effect will not occur. |
PEC/PNEC ratio |
if < 1 then no risk
(for the environment) |
if > 1 then
there is a risk (which has to be managed) |
POP |
Persistant Organic
Pollutants : these chemicals are toxic, persistant and bioaccumulative |
POW |
Partition coefficient
octanol / water. |
PPE |
Personal Protective
Equipment |
PRTR |
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register |
PTB |
Persistence, toxicity and
bioaccumulation potential of chemicals |
PWI |
Preliminary Work Item for
a new International Standard or a revision (ISO) |
QSAR |
Quantitative Structure /
Activity Relationship. |
RA |
Risk Assessment |
RACT |
Reasonably Achievable
Control Technology (US) |
RAR |
Risk Assessment Report
(concerning existing susbstances) |
RIVMOD |
Riverine Environmental
Modeling |
RSI |
Repetitive Strain Injuries |
RTECS |
Registry of Toxic Effects
of Chemical Substances |
SAR |
Structure-(toxic) Activity
Relation |
SCF |
Scientific Committee for
Food |
SCOEL |
(EU) Scientific Committee
for Occupational Exposure Limits |
SETAC |
Society of Environmental
Toxicity and Chemistry |
SIAM |
Phase 1 SIDS Initial
Assessment Meeting. |
SIAR |
OECD SIDS Initial
Assessment Report |
SIDS |
Screening Information Data
Set (from OECD). |
STEL |
Short Term Exposure Limit
(15 minutes) |
TF |
Task Force |
TGD |
Technical Guidance
Document |
TIP |
Technical Issues Panel |
TLV |
Thresold Limit Value. |
TM |
(EU) Technical Meeting
(for risk assessment) |
TNG-SP |
Thematic Network Group
Systems and Programmes (from EU Agency for Safety & Health at Work, Bilbao) |
TSCA |
(US) Toxic Substances
Control Act |
TRGS |
(D) Technische Regeln für
Gefahrstoffe |
TWA |
Time Weighted Average (of
an exposure level), usually for 8 hours |
UF |
Uncertainty Factor |
VEEP |
Voluntary Energy
Efficiency Programme |
WD |
Working Draft of a new
International Standard or a revision (ISO) |
WFD |
EU Water Framework
Directive |
WG |
Working Group |
WHO |
World Health Organisations |
WWTP |
Waste Water Treatment
Plant |