Abstract
BRAND-NEW INTERNATIONAL guidelines have been set to chart approaches for making, transporting, using, and disposing chemicals in ways that protect people's health and the environment. Negotiators completed this plan, known as the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), earlier this month in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (C&EN, Feb. 13, page 12). The strategy is designed to help the nations of the world implement, by 2020, a comprehensive approach for managing chemicals. In addition to this noble goal, the accord may also play into future trade disputes, including possible challenges to the European Union's new legislation for regulating chemicals. The core of the Dubai plan is a menu of more than 250 actions for use by governments, industry, unions, environmental and community activists, and researchers. Recommendations include developing better methods to determine the impact of chemicals on human health, eliminating child labor that involves hazardous substances, and encouraging ...
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