Spaniol, Oliver Bergheim, Marlies Dawick, James Kötter, Denise McDonough, Kathleen Schowanek, Diederik Stanton, Kathleen Wheeler, James Willing, Andreas
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Environmental Sciences Europe
BackgroundThe European surfactant and detergent industry initiated a project to conduct an EUSES-based environmental exposure assessment for the total volume of alkyl sulfate (AS) surfactants, and to verify if the EUSES assessment leads to a realistic prediction of the environmental exposure or to an over- respectively under-estimation of the envir...
De Tandt, Ellen Demuytere, Cody Van Asbroeck, Elke Moerman, Hiram Mys, Nicolas Vyncke, Gianni Delva, Laurens Vermeulen, An Ragaert, Peter De Meester, Steven
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This manuscript provides an overview of the legislative requirements for the use of mechanical recycled plastics in articles placed on the EU market, as seen from the perspective of a plastics recycler. The first part reviews the main principles included in the overarching legislation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restrictions of C...
Willhite, Calvin C Karyakina, Nataliya A Nordheim, Eirik Arnold, Ian Armstrong, Vic Momoli, Franco Shilnikova, Natalia S Yenugadhati, Nagarajkumar Krewski, Daniel
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Neurotoxicology
The European Union's REACH Regulation requires determination of potential health and environmental effects of chemicals in commerce. The present case study examines the application of REACH guidance for health hazard assessments of three high production volume (HPV) aluminium (Al) substances: metallic aluminium, aluminium oxide, and aluminium hydro...
Maxim, Laura Berger, Tristan
This article analyzes the European regulation REACH as a co-management policy tool for chemical risks. Whilst the existing literature on the topic either highlights the strong capacity of authorities to force the industry to produce the data needed for decision making, or criticizes the former’s subordination to economic interests, this article tak...
Hughes, Christopher B. Brown, David M. Camenzuli, Louise Redman, Aaron D. Arey, J. Samuel Vione, Davide Wang, Neil Vaiopoulou, Eleni
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Environmental Sciences Europe
Under the European REACH regulation, chemicals are assessed for persistence as part of weight-of-evidence determinations of persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity (PBT), as required under Annex XIII and supported by an Integrated Assessment and Testing Strategy (ITS). This study describes the persistence assessment of phenanthrene, a data-rich p...
Chinen, Kazue Malloy, Timothy
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
In 2006, the European Union (EU) enacted the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) to address growing concerns of hazardous chemicals in the EU market. Under REACH, companies seeking authorization to use priority substances identified as substances of very high concern (SVHCs) and included in the authorizatio...
Schwirn, Kathrin Voelker, Doris Galert, Wiebke Quik, Joris Tietjen, Lars
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Within the European regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH, EC No 1907/2006) specific provisions for nanomaterials were included, which have become effective on 1 January 2020. Although knowledge on the peculiarities of testing and assessing fate and effects of nanomaterials in the environment ...
Lunghini, F Marcou, G Azam, P Enrici, M H Van Miert, E Varnek, A
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SAR and QSAR in environmental research
The evaluation of persistency of chemicals in environmental media (water, soil, sediment) is included in European Regulations, in the context of the Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) assessment. In silico predictions are valuable alternatives for compounds screening and prioritization. However, already existing prediction tools have l...
Schlueter, Urs Tischer, Martin
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In the last years, the evaluation and validation of exposure modelling tools for inhalation exposure assessment at workplaces received new and highly increased attention by different stakeholders. One important study in this regard is the ETEAM ( E valuation of T ier 1 E xposure A ssessment M odels) project that evaluated exposure assessment tools ...
Spinazzè, Andrea Borghi, Francesca Magni, Daniele Rovida, Costanza Locatelli, Monica Cattaneo, Andrea Cavallo, Domenico Maria
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
This study aims to evaluate the risk assessment approach of the REACH legislation in industrial chemical departments with a focus on the use of three models to calculate exposures, and discuss those factors that can determine a bias between the estimated exposure (and therefore the expected risk) in the extended safety data sheets (e-SDS) and the e...
