Using REACH for the EU Environmental Footprint: Building a Usable Ecotoxicity Database, Part I.

ABSTRACT: The European Union Environmental Footprint (EU-EF) is a harmonized method to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organizations. Among 16 different impact categories included in the EU-EF, 1 focuses on the impact of substances on freshwater ecosystems and requires the use of toxicity data. This paper evaluates the use of the aquatic toxicity data submitted to the EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. It presents an automated computerized approach for selecting substance ecotoxicity values, building on a set of quality and reliability criteria to extract the most relevant data points for calculating the substance specific hazard values. A selected set of criteria led to the exclusion of approxi

SUBMITTER: Saouter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852526 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature