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Progress in European chemicals policy to support the protection of the environment and human health from persistent, mobile and toxic and very persistent and very mobile substances
In 2020, the European Commission released its Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability towards a Toxic Free Environment (CSS) as part of the European...
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Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals
Pollution caused by anthropogenic chemicals contributes to interlinked planetary crises, together with climate change and biodiversity loss. One of...
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Beyond target chemicals: updating the NORMAN prioritisation scheme to support the EU chemicals strategy with semi-quantitative suspect/non-target screening data
BackgroundPrioritisation of chemical pollutants is a major challenge for environmental managers and decision-makers alike, which is essential to help...
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The implementation of the substitution principle in European chemical legislation: a comparative analysis
BackgroundThe substitution of hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives is an important objective in European chemical policy, but implementation...
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Expected Risk as basis for assessment of safe use of chemicals
This paper describes a straightforward modeling procedure to derive ‘expected risk’ ( ER ) of chemical substances. Starting from proposed use volumes,...
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Screening and prioritising persistent, mobile and toxic chemicals: development and application of a robust scoring system
BackgroundLately scientific and societal concern has emerged about persistent (P), mobile (M) and toxic (T) chemicals. Such chemicals, like some...
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Using environmental monitoring data from apex predators for chemicals management: towards harmonised sampling and processing of archived wildlife samples to increase the regulatory uptake of monitoring data in chemicals management
Monitoring data from apex predators were key drivers in the development of early chemicals legislations due to the population declines of many...
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A global overview of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment: occurrence, effects, and treatment methods
Various chemicals are known to impact biological systems disrupting normal homeostasis, especially the endocrine system, called endocrine disrupting...
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Effects of Sustainable Business Networks on the Environmentally Sound Management of Chemicals in Zimbabwe
Despite the formulation of policy frameworks and awareness on hazardous chemical management, practical implementation at organisational level remains...
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Thermochemical recovery from the sustainable economy development point of view—LCA-based reasoning for EU legislation changes
The EU legislation put the focus on the material recovery of waste while energy recovery is not elaborate enough and all thermochemical conversion...
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Evaluating Anthropogenic Origin of Unidentified Volatile Chemicals in the River Rhine
Surface water of rivers like the Rhine is a highly relevant environmental and an important source of the Dutch drinking water. To improve protection...
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Identifying Gaps and Challenges in Global Pesticide Legislation that Impact the Protection of Consumer Health: Rice as a Case Study
With continued global population expansion, food production will have to increase with crops protected against the growing menace of pests, requiring...
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Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: a Transformative Approach to Biodiversity Legislation in Nigeria
Indigenous communities worldwide have cultivated and preserved invaluable ecological knowledge on biodiversity conservation long before the...
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Environmental Legislation and Global Initiatives
The environment is comprised of air, water, and land, and it is crucial to ensure that human activities do not pose a threat to the environment from...
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Using environmental monitoring data from apex predators for chemicals management: towards better use of monitoring data from apex predators in support of prioritisation and risk assessment of chemicals in Europe
A large number of apex predator samples are available in European research collections, environmental specimen banks and natural history museums that...
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Assessment of 18 endocrine disrupting chemicals in tap water samples from Klang Valley, Malaysia
Multiclass of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) such as nine perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), five bisphenols, and four...
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Unlocking India’s Potential in Managing Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): Importance, Challenges, and Opportunities
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are a prime concern for the environment and health globally. Research shows that in develo** countries such...
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Hazardous chemicals in non-polar extracts from paper and cardboard food packaging: an effect-based evaluation
BackgroundFood contact articles are used in our everyday life and information regarding the potential health hazards of migrating chemicals for...
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Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), known as the most detected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in various...
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The Value of China’s Legislation on Plastic Pollution Prevention in 2020
It has taken 12 years since 2008, but China is finally strengthening plastic pollution prevention and control through legislation. In an effort to...