Establish health-based guidelines and standards
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States to establish health-based guidelines for water, air, soil, food, products, and occupational exposure drawing on WHO norms, standards and guidelines, as appropriate, and participating in their development.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Air quality guidelines for Europe [2000]
- WHO - Global air quality guidelines. Particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. [2021]
- WHO - Air Pollution data portal (accessed 2022)
- FAO / WHO - Evaluations of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Global Environment Monitoring System [accessed 2022]
- FAO / WHO - JMPR Reports and evaluations [accessed 2022]
- FAO / WHO : Codex Pesticides Residues in Food Online Database [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Guidelines from potential risks on protecting workers of manufactured nanomaterials [2017]
- WHO - Assessing chemical risks in food [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Food Additives Series. Safety evaluation of certain food additives and contaminants. Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls [2001]
- WHO - Food safety: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Developing drinking-water quality regulations and standards [2018]
- WHO - Chemical hazards in drinking-water: background documents to the GDWQ [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda [2022]
- WHO - A global overview of national regulations and standards for drinking-water quality [2018]
- WHO - Pharmaceuticals in drinking water [2012]
- WHO - Water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025 [2018]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Highly Hazardous Pesticides [2016]