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Acronyms
REACH
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals
(EU)
RIVM
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Netherlands)
RQ
Risk Quotient
RSC
Royal Society of Chemistry
RVNAS
Reference Value Non-acutely Toxic Active Substances
SAICM
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
SDG
Sustainable Development Goal
SEAC
Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis
SETAC
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
SIEF
Substance Information Exchange Forum
SIL
Safety Integrity Level
SIS
Safety Instrumented System
SLCA
Social Life Cycle Assessment
SVHC
Substance of Very High Concern
TEF
Toxic Equivalency Factor
TLV
Threshold Limit Value
TMR
Time to Maximum Rate
TOC
Total Organic Carbon
TRS
Temporal Remote State
TSCA
Toxic Substances Control Act (United States)
UBA
Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency)
UN
United Nations
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNGA
United Nations General Assembly
US CSB
United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
US EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
US
United States
UV-VIS
Ultraviolet-Visible
VOC
Volatile Organic Compound
vPvB
very Persistent and very Bioaccumulative
WHO
World Health Organization
WWTP
Wastewater Treatment Plant
XPS
Extruded Polystyrene