Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges

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This important contribution to the scientific understanding of chemical risk regulation offers a coherent, comprehensive and updated multidisciplinary analysis, written by leading experts in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk analysis, media and communication, law, and political science. The text focuses in particular on the new European REACH regime and its nature, causes and consequences. It examines the regime in the context of the interplay between science and policy, the role of the media, human health, and the environment. Other regulatory systems at both domestic and international levels are also studied, including the UN’s Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for chemical labelling, as well as developments in the U.S. In addition, readers will find analyses of a number of new and still largely uncharted regulatory systems, along with in-depth assessments of their complexity and transnational nature. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Introduction....Pages 1-5 Risk Governance: Contemporary and Future Challenges....Pages 9-27 Communicating Chemical Risks: Beyond the Risk Society....Pages 29-44 Framing Chemical Risks in Sweden and Poland: Journalists’ Narratives and Media Texts....Pages 45-69 REACH: What Has Been Achieved and What Needs To Be Done?....Pages 71-83 Improving the Value of Standard Toxicity Test Data in REACH....Pages 85-98 Testing in Aquatic Ecotoxicology: What Are the Scientific Conditions for the ‘3R’ Concept?....Pages 99-119 Chemical Risk Assessment in Toxicological Perspective....Pages 121-131 Occupational Exposure Limits in Comparative Perspective: Unity and Diversity Within the European Union....Pages 133-150 Scientific Uncertainty and Science-Policy Interactions in the Risk Assessment of Hazardous Chemicals....Pages 151-161 Assessing Chemical Risks: Evaluating Products Rather than Substances, and the Case of Anti-fouling Paints....Pages 163-176 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Global Trends in Chemicals Management....Pages 179-215 Regulating Chemical Risk: REACH in a Global Governance Perspective....Pages 217-237 The Precautionary Principle in EU and US Chemicals Policy: A Comparison of Industrial Chemicals Legislation....Pages 239-265 Chemical Regulations in Central and Eastern Europe: The Pull of Transnational Markets and Associations....Pages 267-281 Capacity Building for Chemicals Control: Legislation, Institutions, Public–Private Relationships....Pages 283-300 Scientific Committees and EU Policy: The Case of SCHER....Pages 301-317 Implementing Chemical Regulation: The Role of Inspectors....Pages 319-335 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 Regulatory Futures in Retrospect....Pages 339-348 Back Matter....Pages 349-350