OECD High Production Volume Chemicals Programme

Summary of 20th SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting

Abstract

The 20th SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) Initial Assessment Meeting was held in Paris at OECD headquarters on 19th-21st April 2005. The initial assessment documents of 45 substances were submitted, and 43 were agreed at the meeting. The Japanese Government submitted the initial assessment documents of three substances, 2-furanmethanol, tetrahydro- (CAS: 97-99-4), phthalimide (CAS: 85-41-6) and sodium nitrite (CAS: 7632-00-0), and all three documents were agreed at the meeting. This paper reports the summary record of the 20th SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting.