Chemicals In The Environment -- Contents -- The Current Regulation of Environmental Chemicals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Protection of the Water Environment -- 3 Classification and Labelling of Chemicals -- 4 The Notification of New Substances Regulations -- 5 Existing Substances Regulations -- 6 New European Chemicals Policy (REACH) -- 7 Other European and UK Regulations on Chemicals -- 8 International Activities on Chemicals -- 9 Voluntary Approaches to Control of Chemicals in the Environment -- References -- Chemicals Risk Assessment and Management -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Types of Risk -- 3 Risks and Hazards -- 4 The Evidence for Harm Caused by Industrial Chemicals -- 5 Cost-Benefit -- 6 Perception of Chemical Risks and The Roles of the Advocates -- 7 The Problems in Controlling Risks from Chemicals -- 8 Industry Initiatives -- 9 REACH -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Future Perspectives in Risk Assessment of Chemicals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Difficulties in Risk Assessment -- 3 Current Developments -- 4 Future Perspectives -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Assessing Risks to Human Health -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chemical Hazard Assessment -- 3 Assessing Risk -- 4 Qualitative vs. Quantitative Risk Assessment -- 5 Role of Epidemiology -- 6 Use of Biomarkers for Exposure and Risk Assessment -- 7 Applications of Molecular Biology -- 8 Uncertainties in Human Health Risk Assessment and the Role of Expert Committees -- 9 The Changing Face of Chemical Regulation in Europe -- 10 Future Perspectives -- References -- Environmental Risk Assessment -- 1 What is Environmental Risk Assessment? -- 2 What are We Trying to Protect? -- 3 What is the EU Legislative Framework? -- 4 What are Some of the Challenges Associated with the Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals? -- References -- Risk Assessment of Metals in the Environment -- 1 Introduction.

2 Ecological Risk Assessment -- 3 Comparison of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants -- 4 Problems with the Application of Traditional ERA Approaches to Metals -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Partitioning, Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Chemicals in the Environment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Partitioning -- 3 Persistence -- 4 Long-Range Transport -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Subject Index.