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.
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
With a section devoted to chemical safety.
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.
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.
GreenFacts
A non-profit organization providing summaries for non-specialists of reports on scientific consensus on health and the environment.
EU projects
Framework Programme 6 projects
PIONEER
Puberty onset - influence of nutritional, environmental and endogenous regulators.
CRESCENDO
Consortium for Research into Nuclear Receptors in Development and Aging.
SAFEFOODS
Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approach for foods.
EuroFIR
European Food Information Resource Network. Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems.
NuGO
European nutrigenomics organisation - linking genomics, nutrition and health research.
LIPGENE
Diet, genomics and the metabolic syndrome: An integrated nutrition, agro-food, social and economic analysis.
GA2LEN
Global allergy and asthma European network.
SEAFOODPLUS
Health-improving, safe seafood of high quality in a consumer-driven fork-to-farm concept.
Food & Fecundity
Pharmaceutical products in the environment: Development and employment of methods for assessing their origin, fate effects on human fecundity.
MoniQA
Establishing common methods and standards in food analysis.
Framework Programme 5 projects
CREDO - A Cluster of research into endocrine disruption in Europe.
Members of CREDO are EDEN, FIRE, COMPRENDO and EURISKED:
PHYTOHEALTH - Improving health through dietary phytoestrogens: a pan-European network on consumers' issues and opportunities for producers.
BONETOX - Research to support test method development and human health risk assessment for dioxins and other endocrine disrupting compounds in the food chain
EDERA - Endocrine Disrupters Estrogen Receptor Activation
FOODMIGROSURE - Modelling migration from plastics into foodstuffs as a novel and cost effective tool for estimation of consumer exposure from food contact material.
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.
EU online
The official EU web sites on the Europa server:
DG Research - European Commission, Directorate General for Research
DG Environment - European Commission, Directorate General for Environment
Health-EU - Public Health Thematic Portal
Euractiv - EU News and Policy Positions
EDID: EDCs Diet Interaction Database
CORDIS - EU Community Research & Development Information Service on Framework Programmes
CORDIS FP6 - EU Community Research & Development Information Service on Framework Programme 6
CORDIS FP7 - EU Community Research & Development Information Service on Framework Programme 7
European Commission website on endocrine-disrupting chemicals research
European Commission website on endocrine-disrupting chemicals regulation
European Chemicals Bureau
EU chemicals legislation
A guide to the chemicals legislation web-sites (including REACH):
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.
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