The Global Product Strategy: comfort blanket or valuable tool?

摘要

First introduced by the International Council of Chemicals Associations (ICCA) in 2006, the Global Product Strategy (GPS) portal and accompanying substance safety summaries are described by the chemical industry and the UN as an essential tool to implement the latter’s voluntary global chemicals management programme, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (Saicm), and to reach its goal of achieving sound chemicals management around the world by 2020. As part of the GPS, companies take the results of their substance risk assessments and publish a “safety summary” in an easy-to-understand format on the GPS portal.