| refocused OECD HPV Chemicals Programme |
| Launched by the OECD for initial hazard assessment of High Production Volume chemicals; vehicle for the ICCA HPV Chemicals Initiative. |
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| reforming |
| The thermal or catalytic conversion of petroleum naphtha into more volatile products or higher octane number. It represents the total effect of numerous simultaneous reactions such as cracking, polymerisation, dehydrogenation, and isomerisation. |
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| Regulatory Committee |
| Established in Article 15 of Regulation 793/93, this Committee is composed of representatives from the EU Member States and chaired by the representative of the Commission. Its opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148(2) of the Treaty of Rome. |
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| REIF |
| REACH enters into force. |
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| release |
| Any emission, effluent, spill, discharge or disposal to the air, land, or water, of any pollutant or contaminant, whether routine or accidental, at or from a facility. The term does not include shipment or distribution of chemical product, nor release to the environment as part of normal and intended use of a product by the consumer. |
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| relevance |
| Covering the extent to which data and tests are appropriate for a particular hazard identification or risk characterisation. |
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| reliability |
| Evaluating the inherent quality of a test report or publication relating to preferably standardised methodology and the way the experimental procedure and results are described to give evidence of the clarity and plausibility of the findings. |
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| resin |
| Any natural or synthetic organic compound consisting of a non-crystalline or viscous liquid substance. Natural resins are organic substances that are transparent or translucent, formed in plant secretions. Synthetic resins comprise a large class of synthetic products that have some of the physical properties of natural resins but are different chemically. Most synthetic resins are polymers. The term resin dates from the early years of the plastics industry; it originally referred to naturally occurring amorphous solids such as shellac and rosin. See also plastics. |
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| Responsible Care (RC) |
| Responsible Care is the chemical industry’s commitment to continuous improvement in all aspects of health, safety and environment performance and to openness in communication about its activities and achievements. more |
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| reuse |
| A practice that reemploys a material from a process either as an ingredient in a process to make a product, or as an effective substitute for a commercial product in a particular function or application. |
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| REWARD |
| Recycling of Waste RD Programme (EU). |
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| RFP |
| Request for Proposal. |
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| RICE |
| Regular Interlaboratory Counting Exchange. |
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| RID |
| A set of European regulations for the carriage of dangerous goods by rail. |
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| RIDDOR |
| Reporting of Injury, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations, 1985 (UK). |
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| RIFM |
| Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (USA). |
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| RIP |
| REACH Implementation Project. |
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| RISC |
| Réseau d’Information du Secteur de la Chimie. |
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| risk |
| Risk should be clearly distinguished from hazard. Risk is the chance that a given hazardous effect will occur. The use of fire by humans is an example of optimising the balance between hazard and risk, as fire, being extremely hazardous, must be used under carefully controlled conditions to keep risks to a minimum. |
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| Risk Assessment |
| A process to determine the relationship between the predicted exposure and adverse effects in four major steps: hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterisation. |
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