Risk Reduction Potential of REACH Authorisation

Trade Union Priority List for REACH authorisation.

BACKGROUND The new EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances (REACH) Regulation to control the trade and use of chemicals has a great potential to reduce worker exposure to hazardous substances and therefore reduce chemical-related occupational diseases. REACH requires manufacturers of substances of very high concern (SVHC) to request an authorisation for...

External validity of trials should be taken into account before asthma drug candidates reach market authorisation.

SVHC in imported articles: REACH authorisation requirement justified under WTO rules

The purpose of the REACH Regulation is to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment as well as the free circulation of substances on the internal market while enhancing competitiveness and innovation. To this end, REACH introduces, among other instruments, the authorisation regime for substances of very high concern (SVHC) that are listed on Annex XIV of the regulati...

Specification of Authorisation Services

This document describes MAFTIA authorisation services and how they will be implemented in the MAFTIA architecture. The authorisation services implement a fine grain protection, i.e., capable of protecting each object method invocation, in order to satisfy as much as possible the least privilege principle and to obtain the best protection efficacy. The authorisation schemes are flexible and rich...

Valuing Reduction of Risk of Mortality Due to Traffic Accidents

Background and Aim: The trade-off between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks is explained by the value of statistical life, an efficient tool widely used to evaluate projects and allocate appropriate resources for road safety. The objective of this study was to estimate the statistical significance of life in order to improve road safety in the city of Ardabil, Iran. Materials and Methods:...