NewS proposes a new strategy for coping with potential unwanted adverse effects to human health and to the environment from exposure to chemical substances. Science-based precaution is a key term in the new strategy, and so is simplified risk assessment.

NewS consists of eleven research projects that aim at making the new strategy as operative as possible.

The projects are also linked together in three other ways:

(1) All our toxicological and ecotoxicological projects are devoted to reproductive and developmental toxicity.

(2) All ecotoxicological projects have the same study area, namely the Baltic Sea.

(3) The projects focus on the same model substances, namely brominated flame retardants.The programme is led by a programme board.

NewS has finished its first four-year period (phase 1), and in January 2003 it entered its second and last four-year period (phase 2). Phase 2 of NewS is funded by MISTRA, and Akzo Nobel. Program host is the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden (KTH). 

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