The Chemical Review Committee is scheduled to review up to 22 new notifications covering eight candidate chemicals. Seven of those eight chemicals are pesticides: atrazine, azinphos-ethyl, endrin, mephosfolan, methomyl, phosphamidon, and prothoate. Only one, lead chromates, is an industrial chemical.

The Chemical Review Committee faced a lengthy agenda as it reviewed a dozen hazardous chemicals and pesticides to determine if they should be listed under the Rotterdam Convention’s prior informed consent procedure, which could limit their trade, if deemed necessary to protect human health and the environment.