TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barile, Frank A.
A1  - Berry, Colin
A1  - Blaauboer, Bas
A1  - Boobis, Alan
A1  - Bolt, Herrmann M.
A1  - Borgert, Christopher
A1  - Dekant, Wolfgang
A1  - Dietrich, Daniel
A1  - Domingo, Jose L.
A1  - Galli, Corrado L.
A1  - Gori, Gio Batta
A1  - Greim, Helmut
A1  - Hengstler, Jan G.
A1  - Heslop-Harrison, Pat
A1  - Kacew, Sam
A1  - Marquardt, Hans
A1  - Mally, Angela
A1  - Pelkonen, Olavi
A1  - Savolainen, Kai
A1  - Testai, Emanuela
A1  - Tsatsakis, Aristides
A1  - Vermeulen, Nico P.
T1  - The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: in support of the BfR position
JF  - Archives of Toxicology
N2  - The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability (CSS) asserts that both human health and the environment are presently threatened and that further regulation is necessary. In a recent Guest Editorial, members of the German competent authority for risk assessment, the BfR, raised concerns about the scientific justification for this strategy. The complexity and interdependence of the networks of regulation of chemical substances have ensured that public health and wellbeing in the EU have continuously improved. A continuous process of improvement in consumer protection is clearly desirable but any initiative directed towards this objective must be based on scientific knowledge. It must not confound risk with other factors in determining policy. This conclusion is fully supported in the present Commentary including the request to improve both, data collection and the time-consuming and bureaucratic procedures that delay the publication of regulations.
KW  - pharmacology/toxicology
KW  - occupational medicine/industrial medicine
KW  - environmental health
KW  - biomedicine, general
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-307154
SN  - 0340-5761
SN  - 1432-0738
VL  - 95
IS  - 9
ER  -