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The costs — both in animal lives and euros — of the European REACH legislation on chemical testing are escalating. Thomas Hartung and Costanza Rovida argue for a suspension of certain toxicity tests.

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  1. Thomas Hartung is the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA, and a professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany. thartung@jhsph.edu,
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  2. Costanza Rovida is a chemist working as a private consultant in Varese, Italy.,
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Hartung, T., Rovida, C. Chemical regulators have overreached.Nature 460, 1080–1081 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4601080a

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