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74. It is recommended that the Secretary-General, drawing on the resources of the 
entire UN system, and with the active support of Governments and appropriate 
scientific and other international bodies: 
(a) Increase the capability of the UN system to provide awareness and advance 
warning of deleterious effects to human health and well-being from man-made 
pollutants; 
(b) Provide this information in a form which is useful to policy-makers at the 
national level; 
(c) Assist those Governments which desire to incorporate these and other 
environmental factors into national planning processes; 
(d) Improve the international acceptability of procedures for testing pollutants 
and contaminants by: 
i International division of labour in carrying out the large-scale testing pro- 
grammes needed; 
ii Dev elopment of international schedules of tests for evaluation of the environ- 
mental impact potential of specific contaminants or products. Such a schedule of 
tests should include consideration of both short-term and long-term effects of all 
kinds, and should be reviewed and brought up to date from time to time to take 
into account new knowledge and techniques: 
iii Development and ‘implementation of an international intercalibration 
programme for sampling and analytical techniques to permit more meaningful 
comparisons of national data; 
iv Develop plans for an International Registry of Data on Chemicals in the 
Environment based on a collection of available scientific data on the environ- 
mental behaviour of the most important man-made chemicals and containing 
production figures of the potentially most harmful chemicals, together with their 
pathways frony factory via utilization to ultimate dispcesal or recirculation. 
75. Ii is recommended that, without reducing*in any way their attention to non- 
radioactive pollutants, Gov ernments should: 
(a) Explore with TAEA: and WHO the feasibility of developing a registry of 
releases to the biosphere of significant quantities of radioactive materials; 
(b) Support and expand, under IAEA and appropriate international organiza- 
tions, international co-operation on radioactive waste problems, including prob- 
lems of mining and tailings and also including co-ordination of plans for the siting 
of fuel-reprocessing plants in relation to the siting of the ultimate storage areas, 
considering also the transportation problems. 
76. It ws recommended: 
(a) That a major effort be undertaken to develop monitoring and both epidemi- 
ological and experimental research programmes providing data for early warning 
and prevention of the deleterious effects of the various environmental agents, 
acting singly or in combination, to which man is increasingly exposed, directly 
or indirectly, and for the assessment of their potential risks to human health, with 
particular regard to the risks of mutagenicity, teratogenicity and carcinogenicity. 
Such programmes should be guided and co-ordinated by WHO; 
(b) That WHO co-ordinate the development and implementation of an appro- 
priate international collection and dissemination system to correlate medical, 
environmental and family-history data; 
(c) That Governments actively support and contribute to international pro- 
grammes for research and development of guidelines concerning environmental 
factors in the work environment. 
77. It is recommended that WHC, in collaboration with the relevant agencies, 
in the context of an approved programme, and with a view to suggesting neces- 
sary action, assist Governments, particularly those of developing countries, in 
undertaking co-ordinated programmes of monitoring of air and water and in 
establishing monitoring systems in areas where there may be a risk to health 
from pollution. 
78. It is recommended that internationally co-ordinated programmes of research 
and monitoring of food contamination by chemical and biological agents be 
established and developed jointly by FAO and WHO, taking into account national 
programmes, and that the results of monitoring be expeditiously assembled, eval- 
uated and made available so as to provide early information on rising trends of 
contamination and on levels that may be considered undesirable or may lead to 
unsafe human intakes. 
79. It is recommended: 
(a) That approximately 10 baseline stations be set up, with the consent of tle 
States involved, in areas remote from all sources of pollution in order to monitor 
long-term global trends in atmospheric constituents and properties which may 
cause chang¢s in meteorological properties, including climatic changes; 
