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A Review of the Implementation of the Embryonic Stem Cell Test (EST)

2009; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/026119290903700314

2632-3559

Philip Marx‐Stoelting, Els Adriaens, Hans-Jürgen Ahr, Susanne Bremer, Bernward Garthoff, Heinz‐Peter Gelbke, Aldert H. Piersma, Cristian Pellizzer, Uwe Reuter, Vera Rogiers, Barbara Schenk, Silke Schwengberg, A. Seiler, Horst Spielmann, Margino Steemans, Donald B. Stedman, Philippe Vanparys, Joan Albert Vericat, Miriam Verwei, Femke van de Water, Marc Weimer, Michael Schwarz,

Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment

The new European chemicals policy for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (the REACH system), requires the routine toxicological testing of chemicals produced in volumes of more than one tonne per year, in order to enhance environmental and consumer safety (1). Under the REACH system policy, it will be most probably necessary to test several thousand chemicals for their toxicological properties.