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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.

      
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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