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BfR - Department 6: Chemicals Safety (BfR - CHS)

The Department’s work encompasses the health assessment of substances (chemicals, biocides, pesticides) and preparations (pesticides and biocides). This assessment involves determining their inherent toxic properties for the purposes of classification and labelling, the establishment of limit values and the identification of exposure as elements of risk assessment. Furthermore, control methods are examined and existing test methods and strategies are developed further and new ones conceived. The Department’s assessments are used on the national, European and global levels. They are the basis for National and European risk management provisions and measures.They are also used in transport safety including international sea shipping. The Department supports the following BfR Committee: 'Committee for Pesticides and Their Residues'.

Parent institution:

Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Details of BfR

Address

BfR - Department 6: Chemicals Safety (BfR - CHS)
Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10
10589 Berlin

Berlin

Phone: +49-(0)30-18412-3337
Fax: +49-(0)30-18412-3008

email: 6(@)bfr.bund.de

Activities:

  • Research

Focus of Research:

  • Development of basics and strategies for risk assessment of nanomaterials in pesticides, biocides and chemicals
  • Endocrine disruptors: Development of strategies and concepts for assessing the risk of pesticides, biocides and chemicals particularly with regard to endocrine damaging characteristics
  • Improvement of knowledge of the exposition to residues of pesticides: Analyses of consumer data and development of consumer models
  • Improvement of toxicological data basis: Analyses of dermal absorption of pesticides (active ingredients), analyses of interspecies differences of transport of xenobiotics in the placenta and analyses of xenobiotic metabolism in the lung
  • Risk assessment of multiple residues: Research project to understand combination effects at an example of a commonly used group of fungicides (Triazole)
  • Risk assessment of phthalates: Analyses of structure–activity relationships and of the metabolism of asymmetric phthalates

Coordinated projects

Involved in research projects: