PRIORITY SETTING FOR EXISTING CHEMICALS: AUTOMATED DATA SELECTION ROUTINE

摘要

One of the four steps within Council Regulation 793/93/EEC on the evaluation and control of existing chemicals is the priority setting step. The priority setting step is concerned with selecting high-priority substances from a large number of substances, initially starting with 2,474 high-production-volume chemicals. In order to be able to efficiently carry out the priority setting step, an automated priority setting method was develop, the so-called European Union risk ranking method(EURAM).