Chemical regulators have overreached

Thomas Hartung and Costanza Rovida
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Thomas Hartung: Thomas Hartung is the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA, and a professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany. thartung@jhsph.edu
Costanza Rovida: Costanza Rovida is a chemist working as a private consultant in Varese, Italy.

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7259, 1080-1081

Abstract: The costs — both in animal lives and euros — of the European REACH legislation on chemical testing are escalating. Thomas Hartung and Costanza Rovida argue for a suspension of certain toxicity tests.

Date: 2009
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