Chesar 2.0 to be released in June

After a successful first round of testing by industry, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) confirmed, on 18 April 2012, that a new version of the Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting Tool, Chesar, would be released by the end of June 2012.

Chesar, enables registrants to carry out their safety assessments in a structured, harmonised and efficient way. This includes the importing of substance-related data directly from IUCLID, describing the uses of the substance, identifying risk management measures if needed, carrying out exposure estimates and demonstrating the control of risk. Based on this, Chesar generates the chemical safety report and the exposure scenarios for communication in electronic exchange format and as a text document. Chesar was released for the first time in May 2010 and is available at present in its 1.2 version, released in August 2011.

Website: CHEmical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool (CHESAR) http://chesar.echa.europa.eu/

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