Technical Reports
29.06.2001
TR 079 – Exposure Factors Sourcebook for European Populations (with Focus on UK Data)
TR 079 : Exposure Factors Sourcebook for European Populations (with Focus on UK Data) | June 2001
Risk assessment includes elements of exposure, hazard, and dose-response. The exposure component is ca...
29.12.1999
TR 078 – Skin Sensitisation Testing: Methodological Considerations
TR 078 : Skin Sensitisation Testing: Methodological Considerations | December 1999
Skin sensitisation testing was considered last by ECETOC in Monograph No.14 (1990). Since then a revised OECD guideli...
29.08.1999
TR 077 – Skin and Respiratory Sensitisers: Reference Chemical Data Bank
TR 077 : Skin and Respiratory Sensitisers: Reference Chemical Data Bank | August 1999
Certain chemicals can cause occupational and consumer health problems, such as allergic contact dermatitis and all...
29.01.1999
TR 076 – Monitoring and Modelling of Industrial Organic Chemicals, with Particular Reference to Aquatic Risk Assessment
TR 076 : Monitoring and Modelling of Industrial Organic Chemicals, with Particular Reference to Aquatic Risk Assessment | January 1999
The process for establishing the environmental acceptability of a...
29.12.1998
TR 075 – Organophosphorus Pesticides and Long-term Effects on the Nervous System
TR 075 : Organophosphorus Pesticides and Long-term Effects on the Nervous System | December 1998
Organophosphorus pesticides (OPps) have been used for decades. In view of their potent biological effec...
29.06.1998
TR 074 – QSARs in the Assessment of the Environmental Fate and Effects of Chemicals
TR 074 : QSARs in the Assessment of the Environmental Fate and Effects of Chemicals | June 1998
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSARs) are based on a comparison of the structure of some...
29.12.1997
TR 073 – The Value of Aquatic Model Ecosystem Studies in Ecotoxicology
TR 073 : The Value of Aquatic Model Ecosystem Studies in Ecotoxicology | December 1997
The process of risk assessment of substances aims at safeguarding the integrity of complex environments and ecos...
29.06.1997
TR 072 – Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Health Risk Characterisation
TR 072 : Methyl tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Health Risk Characterisation | June 1997
Use
Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is a colourless flammable liquid with a distinctive ethereal odour. It is used alm...
29.08.1996
TR 071 – Inventory of Critical Reviews on Chemicals
TR 071 : Inventory of Critical Reviews on Chemicals | August 1996
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through its International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC), and the Eu...
30.04.1996
TR 070 – Chronic Neurotoxicity of Solvents
TR 070 : Chronic Neurotoxicity of Solvents | February 1996
This review addresses the question whether a discrete specific neurological syndrome that is casually related to chronic low-level exposure t...
29.04.1996
TR 069 – Toxicology of Man-Made Organic Fibres
TR 069 : Toxicology of Man-Made Organic Fibres | April 1996
The established relationship between inhalation of asbestos fibres of respirable size and disease has led to a belief that all similarly siz...
30.10.1995
TR 068 – Assessment Factors in Human Health Risk Assessment (Updated by TR No. 86)
TR 068 : Assessment Factors in Human Health Risk Assessment (Updated by TR No. 86) | August 1995
This Technical Report reviews the background to the role of 'Assessment Factors' (AFs) in Human Health...
29.10.1995
TR 067 – The Role of Bioaccumulation in Environmental Risk Assessment: The Aquatic Environment and Related Food Webs
TR 067 : The Role of Bioaccumulation in Environmental Risk Assessment: The Aquatic Environment and Related Food Webs | October 1995
In this report the assumptions and equations used to determine bioco...
31.08.1995
TR 066 – Skin Irritation and Corrosion: Reference Chemicals Data Bank
TR 066 : Skin Irritation and Corrosion: Reference Chemicals Data Bank | March 1995
Earlier ECETOC has published comprehensive listing of in vivo rabbit eye irritation data for 55 readily-available che...
30.08.1995
TR 065 – Formaldehyde and Human Cancer Risks
TR 065 : Formaldehyde and Human Cancer Risks | May 1995
Formaldehyde is a natural component in all mammalian cells and because of active enzymatic pathways is rapidly detoxified. Its use by man has be...
29.08.1995
TR 064 – The Toxicology of Glycol Ethers and its Relevance to Man
TR 064 : The Toxicology of Glycol Ethers and its Relevance to Man | August 1995
A previous ECETOC review (1985) discussed the toxicological effects of ethylene and propylene glycol alkyl ethers and ex...
20.02.1995
TR 063 – Reproductive and General Toxicology of some Inorganic Borates and Risk Assessment for Human Beings
TR 063 : Reproductive and General Toxicology of some Inorganic Borates and Risk Assessment for Human Beings | February 1995
A review of the toxicology of some inorganic borates is provided together wi...
30.09.1994
TR 062 – Ammonia Emissions to Air in Western Europe
TR 062 : Ammonia Emissions to Air in Western Europe | July 1994
Anthropogenic ammonia (NH3) emissions to the atmosphere in western Europe (EEC + EFTA countries) are estimated to be between...
29.09.1994
TR 061 – Environmental Exposure Assessment
TR 061 : Environmental Exposure Assessment | September 1994
In ECETOC Technical Report No. 51 (ECETOC, 1993) a process for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Substances was described which is applic...
30.05.1994
TR 060 – Trichloroethylene: Assessment of Human Carcinogenic Hazard
TR 060 : Trichloroethylene: Assessment of Human Carcinogenic Hazard | May 1994
Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been manufactured on an industrial scale since the beginning of this century and it is used f...