Manganese and its compounds; Evaluation of the effects on reproduction, recommendations for classific

On request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands evaluates the effects on the reproduction of substances at the workplace. The Health Council’s Committee for Compounds Toxic to Reproduction recommends to classify compounds toxic to reproduction according to the Directive 93/21/EEC of the European Union. In the present report the committee has reviewed manganese and its compounds.

Committee

• BJ Blaauboer, Toxicologist, Research Institute of Toxicology, Utrecht, chairman
• JN van den Anker, Professor of pediatrics and Neonatology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• AM Bongers, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Hague, advisor
• HFP Joosten, Toxicologist, NV Organon, Department of Toxicology and Drug Disposition, Oss
• D Lindhout, professor of Clinical Genetics/Teratology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• JHJ Copius Peereboom-Stegeman, Toxicologist, Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen
• AH Piersma, Reproductive toxicologist, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• A Stijkel, Toxicologist, Environmental Awareness Foundation, 's-Graveland
• DH Waalkens-Berendsen, Reproductive toxicologist, TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute, Zeist
• PJJM Weterings, Toxicologist, Weterings Consultancy BV, Rosmalen
• ASAM van der Burght, Health Council of the Netherlands, Den Haag, scientific secretary