Background There are several standards that offer explicit guidance on good practice in
systematic reviews (SRs) for the medical sciences; however, no similarly comprehensive set …

Background While systematic review (SR) methods are gaining traction as a method for
providing a reliable summary of existing evidence for health risks posed by exposure to …

Reliable synthesis of the various rapidly expanding bodies of evidence is vital for the
process of evidence-informed decision-making in environmental policy, practice and …

There is high demand in environmental health for adoption of a structured process that
evaluates and integrates evidence while making decisions and recommendations …

Background The issue of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is receiving wide attention
from both the scientific and regulatory communities. Recent analyses of the EDC literature …

Hazard identification regarding adverse effects on the liver is a critical step in safety
evaluations of drugs and other chemicals. Current testing paradigms for hepatotoxicity rely …

Background Approximately one quarter of all deaths globally are attributed to living or
working in an unhealthy environment, with household and ambient air pollution, along with …

The regulation of pesticides in the European Union (EU) relies on a network of hard law
(legislation and implementing acts) and soft law (non-legally binding guidance documents …

Background “Biological plausibility” is a concept frequently referred to in environmental and
public health when researchers are evaluating how confident they are in the results and …

Systematic reviews, pioneered in the clinical field, provide a transparent, methodologically
rigorous and reproducible means of summarizing the available evidence on a precisely …