For this update of the 2010 report Cutting Costs in Chemicals Managament: How the OECD Helps Governments and Industry, a steering group was established with representatives from Colombia, the European Commission, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the industrial chemicals and pesticides industries, the consulting firm RPA and the OECD Secretariat.
The report was co-written by Richard Sigman and Marit Hjort from the OECD Secretariat, with the support of Walid Oueslati, Christiana Oladini-James, Yukie Saegusa and Hannah Thabet, also from the Secretariat, along with the editing contribution of Jennifer Allain. Valuable input was also provided by Andrew Gray (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom), Joop de Knecht (National Institute for Public Health and Environment, the Netherlands), Emily Sanchez and Kevin Swift from the American Chemistry Council, Steve Smith from SC Johnson, Craig Dunlop from Syngenta and Marco Camboni, Meg Postle, Anthony Footitt and Liam Wakefield from RPA.