IOMC toolbox for decision-making in chemicals management
The IOMC Toolbox is an internet-based tool that enables countries to identify the most relevant and efficient tools to address specific national problems in chemicals management.
Chemical Safety and Health
Through the Chemical Safety and Health Unit, WHO works to establish the scientific basis for the sound management of chemicals, and to strengthen national capabilities and capacities for chemical safety.
Highly hazardous pesticides
Publication
1 May 2020
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and guidelines to classification,...
This document sets out a classification system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based on acute risk...
Short information document for decision makers
Preventing disease through healthy environments
Tools
FAO Pesticides Registration Toolkit
This Toolkit is a decision support system for pesticide registrars in developing countries. It will assist registrars in the evaluation and authorization of pesticides. It is a web-based registration handbook intended for day-to-day use by pesticide registrars.
Fact Sheet
Tools for action
Self-poisoning with pesticides is among the most common means of suicide worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where highly hazardous...
Technical guidance for management of public health pesticides
Norms and guidance values
Most recent WHO evaluation and risk assessment documents
WHO Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues Guidance
Educational material
9 June 2004
Decision-making for the judicious use of insecticides -- Participant's and Facilitator's guide (Trial...
The goal of this course is to enable participants to make evidence-based decisions on the safe and judicious use of insecticides in public...
The application of pesticides on crops is necessary to prevent unacceptable losses of the agricultural production. However, their use may pose health risks...
Other relevant documents
IntroductionIn 2019, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly requested the WHO Director-General to prepare a menu of policy options and cost-effective...
This document provides the specifications for major pesticide application equipment used for control of vectors of diseases. The specification guidelines...
16 December 2018
Generic risk assessment model for insecticides used for larviciding and mollusciciding — Second Edition
The purpose of this document is to provide a generic model that can be used for risk assessment of larviciding and mollusciciding; it aims to harmonize...
10 July 2016
Manual on development and use of FAO and WHO specifications for pesticides. First edition - third revision
In 2001, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to develop specifications...
12 October 2013
Specifications for pesticides: a training manual
The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the principles and practice of defining acceptable quality and equivalence of pesticides, to...
6 September 2010
WHO pesticide evaluation scheme: 50 years of global leadership
Renewed interest by the international community and Member States in control of malaria vectors and the emergence of vector-borne diseases as a consequence...
7 April 2007
Manual for indoor residual spraying application of residual sprays for vector control, third edition
Indoor residual spraying is used especially for control of malaria and Chagas disease vectors. However, where indoor residual...
11 May 2006
Pesticides and their application : for the control of vectors and pests of public health importance,...
Vector control is an important component of many vector-borne disease control programmes. Its implementation includes targeted, site-specific...
A meeting of the Global Collaboration for Development of Pesticides for Public Health (GCDPP) on the development of guidelines for...
10 February 2003
Space spray application of insecticides for vector and public health pest control : a practitioner's...
This guide provides information on how to control flying insect pests and vectors of diseases by applying insecticides as space treatments. Space treatments...
1 February 2002
Reducing and eliminating the use of persistent organic pesticides: guidance on alternative strategies...
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemicals that persist in the environment, accumulate in high concentrations in fatty tissues and are bio-magnified...
