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• Direct links to the whole series of Recent Reports’ Highlights published by GreenFacts

  Uncategorized

• Highlights of the Scientific Opinion of EFSA on the testing methods for assessing of the effects of endocrine disruptors on human health and the environment

  Environment

• Highlights of “Turn down the heat” : an assessment prepared for the World Bank of the health, social and environmantal impact of climate change induced by a global warming of 4°C

  Environment

• Highlights of a global assessement report on the sources, fate & effects of micro-plastics in the marine environment

  Environment

• Highlights of the FAO draft report on Nanotechnologies used in food and agriculture and their risk assessment

  Environment

• Highlights of the report on how produce more food and energy with less pollution – the challenges and risks related to nutrient use and availability.

  Environment

• Highlights of the US-EPA draft report on the health and environmental impact of the production of the transgenic salmon AquAdvantage

  Environment

• Highlights of recent reports on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident on thyroid cancer, leukaemia, effects on children health and birth defects (updated version)

  Environment

• Highlights of a report on the European aquatic environment: hazardous substances in fresh and marine waters

  Environment

• Highlights of a report on the potential health impact of pharmaceuticals products released in the environment

  Environment

• Highlights of a report on the toxicity, dangers and risks from exposure to chemical mixtures (“cocktails”)

  Environment

• Climate impact of potential shale gas production in the EU

  Environment

• Potentially endocrine disruptors chemicals: updated assessment for the E.U. of their impact on human health and the environment.

  Environment

• Shale gas : identification of potential dangers and risks for the environment and human health arising from hydraulic fracturing in Europe.

  Environment

• Environmental impact of micro-plastics present in marine litter: assessment and recommendations for a strategy

  Environment

• Farming, erosion, biodiversity or contamination: the declining state of soil in Europe

  Environment

• Alzheimer, cancer : scientific assessments on toxicity, danger and health risks from aluminium exposure in food, antiperspirant and dermatology products.

  Human Health

• The public needs better communication on the new label system regarding the safe use of chemicals.

  Environment

• The risks from exposure to mixture of chemicals : adequately evaluated ?

  Environment

• New facts on environmental effects of ozone depletion and its interactions with climate change

  Environment

• WHO fight against global tobacco epidemy – Progress report 2011

  Human Health

• A report on the state of the Australian Environment in 2011

  Environment

• Cold snap of February 2012 and climate change: Is there a link ?

  Environment

• Mobile phone and brain cancer: radiofrequency electromagnetic fields classified by IARC (WHO) as possibly carcinogenic to humans.

  Human Health

• EU criteria for risk assessment of persistance, bioaccumulation and toxicity of chemicals

  Environment

• Potential health risks of the Japanese nuclear accident : what happened in Chernobyl

  Environment

• Trends of plastic waste in the EU

  Environment

• The tolerable intake of cadmium via food to avoid adverse effects to health: the opinion of the European safety agency EFSA

  Human Health

• Artificial sweeteners, aspartame and cancer or pregnancy risks: the opinion of the European Food Safety Agency EFSA unchanged

  Human Health

• The IARC (WHO) report establishing the cancer risks associated to combined estrogen–progestogen use as contraceptives or menopausal therapy

  Human Health

• Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and its derivative (APFO): hazard and risk assessment for human health and the environment in the EU

  Environment

• Risk Assessment of flame retardant decabromodiphenylether: no risk reduction mesures necessary, except for risks of secondary poisoning

  Environment

• Toxicity, health effects, hazards and risks related to bisphenol A (BPA): the tolerable daily intake of EFSA unchanged in 2010

  Human Health

• Obesity, overweight and health: little sign of positive trend

  Human Health

• Food contamination by dioxins in Germany: useful facts and perspective on dioxins impact on health and the environment and global trends

  Human Health

• Hazards and risks for human and the environment of chlorine and sodium hypochlorite: no need for further risk reduction measures according to EU report.

  Environment

• No significant errors in the 4th IPCC report on climate, according to a Dutch study

  Environment

• Bee losses, bee colonies losses and the growing concerns about their origin: where are we today ?

  Environment

• Cancer in the World : mechanisms, causes, trends, treatments – The 2008 Report of the WHO.

  Human Health