Glosater – Annex 2. Acronyms and legislation bodies
ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
ACTS HSE Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (GBR)
AET Spanish Association of Toxicology
American Association of Poison Control ALATOX
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigeranting, and Air Conditioning Engineers (USA)
BCR Community Bureau of Reference (Brussels)
BIBRA British Industrial Biological Research Association
CCFA Codex Committee on Food Additives
CCPR Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues
CDC Cancer Detection Centre
EC (EU) Commission of the European Communities (European Union)
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compesation, and Liability Act (USA)
CHIP Classification, Hazard Information and Packaging (GBR)
COC Committee on Carcinogenicity (GBR)
COM Committee on Mutagenicity (GBR)
COPR Control of Pesticides Regulations (GBR)
COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (GBR)
COT Committee on Toxicity (GBR)
CPL Classification, Packaging and Labelling
CSM Committee on Safety of Medicines (GBR)
EAPCC European Association of Poison Control Centres
EC European Community, European Commission
EEC European Economic Community
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EINECS European Inventory of Existing Chemical Substance
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EPA Environmental Protection Agency (USA), Same as USEPA
EUROTOX European Federation of Toxicology
FAC MAFF Foods Advisory Committee (GBR)
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization (UN)
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact (USA)
FSC Food Safety Council, Washington DC (USA)
GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System
HSC Health and Safety Commission (GBR)
HSE Health and Safety Executive (GBR)
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO)
ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IFCC International Federation of Clinical Chemists
ILO International Labour Office
INT National Institute of Toxicology (Spain)
IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety
IRIS Integrated Risk Information System (USA)
IRPTC International Register of Potencially Toxic Chemicals
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
IUTOX International Union for Toxicology
JECFA Joints FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
JMPR Joints FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues
MARC Monitoring and Risk Assessment Centre (GBR)
NBS National Bureau of Standards (USA), now NIST
NIH National Institutes of Health (USA)
NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (USA)
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), formely NBS
NRC National Research Council (USA)
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
WHO World Health Organization, same as WHO. World Health Organization
PAHO Pan American Health Organization
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration (USA and/or GBR)
PSPS Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme (GBR)
RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry (GBR)
RCRA Resource Concentration and Recovery Act (USA)
SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU)
TIAFT The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency, same as EPA
USNRC US National Research Council
WFAPCC World Federation of Associations of Clinical Toxicology Centres. World Federation of Associations of Clinical Toxicology Centres and Centres antitoxic
WHO World Health Organization. World Health Organization (WHO)
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