Message from Dr. Jukka Takala, Director of the ILO In Focus Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment to the participants of the Ninth International Symposium on Neurobehavioral Methods and Effects in Occupational and Environmental Health (26–29 September, 2005, Gyeongju, Korea)

摘要

On behalf of the International Labour Office, I am happy to welcome you to this Ninth International Symposium on Neurobehavioral Methods and Effects in Occupational and Environmental Health Chemicals have greatly contributed to a better quality of our life but they can be very dangerous to humans and the environment when improperly used The magnitude of the production and use of chemicals worldwide is not known with any degree of certainty as there is no standard system of reporting, registering and marketing of new chemicals The world's annual production of chemicals exceeds 400 million tones Out of seven million natural and man-made chemical substances known in industry and scientific research, about 70,000 are produced for regular use in industry and agriculture and about 1000 new substances are added to the list each year.