Review of ways to assess sufficiency of environmental endocrine disruptor databases for regulatory purposes

"According to Article 60 of the UK REACH legislation, authorisation of a chemical determined to be a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) as a result of environmental endocrine disruption (ED) can be granted in two ways: based on environmental emissions below an acceptable concentration or due to socio-economic need. To date, authorisations granted under EU REACH for SVHCs due to environmental ED have only been on socio-economic grounds. A SETAC Pellston workshop on Ecotoxicological Hazard and Risk Assessment Appr...