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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 
CREDO - A Cluster of research into endocrine disruption in Europe.
www.credocluster.info

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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