title: [Chemical safety, health, and environment: prospects for governance in the Brazilian context].
abstract: Chemical safety is acknowledged by Agenda 21 as one of the most serious problems worldwide, involving governance at the national and international levels. In Brazil, chemical safety problems have increased in intensity and extent, far beyond the capacity to deal with them. The problems are all the more serious in Brazil because issues of democracy, security, sustainability, and equity, all fundamental to governance, are still incipient and still far from being solved. New societal arrangements and a new, contextualized and more participatory science form the basis for developing and expanding strategies for governance to deal with the problem of chemical safety.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudos da Saúde do Trabalhador e Ecologia Humana, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21041-210, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carlos Machado de
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: Marcelo Firpo S
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Porto
authors.forename: Josino Costa
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.forename: Fatima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pivetta
authors.forename: Jorge M Huet
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: Nilton B B de
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: Arline S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Arcuri
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002617:Chemical Industry / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000592:standards*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects; D006076:Government; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation