Links
CASCADE collaborates with a multitude of organisations, EU projects and other stakeholders. We have gathered links to many of those that have direct relevance to CASCADE´s realm of activities below.
International organisations
WHO-IPCS
The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), established in 1980, is a joint programme of three Cooperating Organizations - ILO, UNEP and WHO, implementing activities related to chemical safety.
www.who.int/ipcs
OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
With a section devoted to chemical safety.
http://www.oecd.org
IVTIP
The In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform, IVTIP, is an informal forum of European companies with an active interest in in vitro testing to be used in regulatry/safety testing or to be used in the compound discovery and development process.
www.ivtip.org
INFOCRIS - Food Contaminant and Residue Information System
INFOCRIS is an interactive system focusing on food and environmental contaminants. The system was developed from FAO's GPPIS (Global Plant and Pest Information System). Emphasis is on Codex standards and facilitating international food trade in relation to contaminants and residues.
www-infocris.iaea.org
GreenFacts
A non-profit organization providing summaries for non-specialists of reports on scientific consensus on health and the environment.
http://www.greenfacts.org
EU projects
Framework Programme 6 projects
PIONEER - Puberty onset - influence of nutritional, environmental and endogenous regulators.
www.pioneer-net.org
CRESCENDO - Consortium for Research into Nuclear Receptors in Development and Aging.
http://www.crescendoip.org/
SAFEFOODS - Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approach for foods.
www.safefoods.nl
EuroFIR - European Food Information Resource Network. Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems.
www.eurofir.net
NuGO - European nutrigenomics organisation - linking genomics, nutrition and health research.
www.nugo.org
LIPGENE - Diet, genomics and the metabolic syndrome: An integrated nutrition, agro-food, social and economic analysis.
www.lipgene.tcd.ie
GA2LEN - Global allergy and asthma European network.
www.ga2len.net
SEAFOODPLUS - Health-improving, safe seafood of high quality in a consumer-driven fork-to-farm concept.
www.seafoodplus.org
Food & Fecundity - Pharmaceutical products in the environment: Development and employment of methods for assessing their origin, fate effects on human fecundity.
http://foodandfecundity.factlink.net/
Framework Programme 5 projects
Members of CREDO are EDEN, FIRE, COMPRENDO and EURISKED:
www.edenresearch.info
www.rivm.nl/fire
www.comprendo-project.org
www.eurisked.org
PHYTOHEALTH - Improving health through dietary phytoestrogens: a pan-European network on consumers' issues and opportunities for producers.
www.phytohealth.org
BONETOX - Research to support test method development and human health risk assessment for dioxins and other endocrine disrupting compounds in the food chain
www.imm.ki.se/bonetox
EDERA - Endocrine Disrupters Estrogen Receptor Activation
www.edera.unimi.it
FOODMIGROSURE - Modelling migration from plastics into foodstuffs as a novel and cost effective tool for estimation of consumer exposure from food contact material.
http://www.foodmigrosure.com/
EU sites
EPAA
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) is a joint initiative from the European Commission and a number of companies and trade federations active in various industrial sectors.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/epaa/index_en.htm
EU online
The official EU web sites on the Europa server:
http://europa.eu.int
DG Research - European Commission, Directorate General for Research
http://ec.europa.eu/research
DG Environment - European Commission, Directorate General for Environment
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/index_en.htm
Health-EU portal - Public Health Thematic Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/index_en.htm
Euractiv - EU News and Policy Positions
http://www.euractiv.com
EDID: EDCs Diet Interaction Database
CORDIS FP6 - EU Community Research & Development Information Service on Framework Programme 6
http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/home.cfm
CORDIS FP7 - EU Community Research & Development Information Service on Framework Programme 7
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home.html
European Commission website on endocrine-disrupting chemicals research
http://ec.europa.eu/research/endocrine/index_en.html
European Commission website on endocrine-disrupting chemicals regulation
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/endocrine/strategy/being_en.htm
European Chemicals Bureau
http://ecb.jrc.it
EU chemicals legislation
A guide to the chemicals legislation web-sites (including REACH):
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/chemicals/legislation/index_en.htm
EFSA - the European Food Safety Authority
EFSA provides risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. In close collaboration with national authorities and in open consultation with its stakeholders, EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication on existing and emerging risks.
www.efsa.eu.int
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