Chemical regulators have overreached

Thomas Hartung; Costanza Rovida

doi:10.1038/4601080a

Chemical regulators have overreached

Thomas Hartung, Costanza Rovida

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

• Complying with REACH may use 20 times more animals and cost 6 times as much as previously estimated. • Regulatory toxicology has neither the high-throughput methods nor alternatives to animal testing to cope. • A moratorium on reproductive toxicology tests would be wise, until alternatives are approved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1080-1081
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	460
Issue number	7259
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/4601080a
State	Published - Aug 27 2009

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