Welcome to the sixth edition of the INTARESE Technical Briefs.

From chemicals in our food to chemicals in our home, a truly integrated assessmenti will need to understand the health impactsi of a wide range of policies.

The first pass assessments done under sub-project three focused on seven areas where integrated assessments would be particularly relevant. This issue contains reports on two of these, agricultural land use and chemicals in household products and materials.

Agricultural practices have changed rapidly in the past hundred years, impacted by local, national and European policies. Many of these changes have affected human health, and there is extensive evidence for some of those effects being negative.

Despite this, most agricultural policy decisions are taken without consideration of the impact they may have on public health.

The work package 3.3 team hope that by performing an integrated assessment and making the datai and results available through the toolbox, the impact on health of any policy changes will be taken into account by decision makers in the future.

Researchers in work package 3.5 have a similar desire. Health impact assessments on policies regulating the use of chemicals in household products are rarely done and the research funded by INTARESE is ground-breaking.

To download this issue click on the link below.

The INTARESE Technical Briefs are a quarterly newsletter that will provide up-to-date information on the activities of the many European scientists who participate in the INTARESE project.

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