The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is a policy framework for international action on chemical hazards. It supports achievement of a central goal agreed at the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development to ensure that by 2020 chemicals a reproduced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on the environment and human health. This publications contains the SAICM texts and resolutions of the international conference on chemicals management.

The report presents a formal meta-analysis that validates the yield performance of alternatives to methyl bromide for some major pre-plant treatments that are currently subject to the Critical Use Exemptions under the Montreal Protocol. The report has been prepared in response to Decision XVI/5 of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.