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ToxSci Advance Access published online on December 9, 2005
Toxicological Sciences, doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfj071
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Received December 5, 2005
Accepted December 7, 2005

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Priority-Setting in the REACH System

Sven Ove Hansson 1 * and Christina Rudén 1

1 Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Teknikringen 78 B, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sven Ove Hansson, E-mail: soh{at}infra.kth.se


  Abstract

Due to the large number of chemicals for which toxicological and ecotoxicological information is lacking, priority-setting for data acquisition is a major concern in chemicals regulation. In the current European system, two administrative priority-setting criteria are used, namely novelty (i.e. time of market introduction) and production volume. In the proposed REACH system, the novelty criterion is no longer used, and production volume will in practice be the only priority-setting criterion for testing requirements. This criterion has severe weaknesses. It is proposed that a multi-criteria system should be developed that includes at least three additional criteria: chemical properties, results from initial testing in a tiered system, and voluntary testing for which efficient incentives can be created. Toxicological and decision-theoretical research is needed to design testing systems with validated priority-setting mechanisms.

Keywords: chemicals control; risk assessment; risk management; REACH; tiered testing.
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