Science has been defined as the knowledge covering general truths or the operation of
general laws obtained and tested through the scientific method. A peculiar aspect of …

1. Introduction 2. Man and environment - a comparison Page 1 THE PRECAUTIONARY
PRINCIPLE AND SCIENCE-BASED LIMITS IN REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY The environmental …

The application of scientific concepts to management decisions is a clear need nowadays.
The regulation of environmental pollutants requires the application of cost/benefit analysis …

In the EU, public as well as scientific concerns dealing with impact of anthropogenic
chemicals on health and environment are increasingly met by an awareness from the side of …

The modern structure of applied ecotoxicology was defined in the late'70s to provide
answers to some questions of the regulatory and administrative community about the …

Certain substances may be hazardous to ecosystems. To be able to preserve the structures
and functions of ecosystems, knowledge is required to qualify and quantify such hazards. To …

The scientific disciplines of biology, ecology and toxicology have advanced in the last
century as separate fields with groundbreaking discoveries and new developments. These …

New regulations, in particular the new European chemicals legislation (REACH), will
increase the demands on environmental risk assessment (ERA). The requirements on …

The new European regulation on chemicals triggers a huge number of new testing.
However, more than 2 years after the enforcement of this policy, toxicity assessment and risk …

The authors of a recent letter to the editor presented a potentially useful conceptual
framework for some types of ecological risk assessments [l]. I find two points of their …