Testing our way to a safe environment?

Abstract

There are about 140,000 individual synthetic chemicals in commerce worldwide1 . The relative few that have been evaluated for safety were tested by a system that is known to be both slow, expensive and insensitive to certain kinds of toxicity2 , despite a consensus on the scientific principles by which chemicals can produce toxicity through endocrine pathways3 . There are major currently ongoing efforts to update the testing system, to make it more protective of public health and to require the use of fewer animals in toxicity testing.

Published in

Publisher: Uppsala Health Summit

SLU Authors

• Hallberg, Ida

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Environmental Sciences


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/131580