Metallic lead

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 metallic lead.

Committee

• BJ Blaauboer, Toxicologist, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht, chairman
• AM Bongers, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Den Haag, advisor
• HFP Joosten, Toxicologist, NV Organon, Department of Toxicology and Drug Disposition, Oss
• D Lindhout, professor of Medical Genetics, paediatrician, UMC, Utrecht
• JHJ Copius Peereboom-Stegeman, Toxicologist, Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen
• AH Piersma, Reproductive toxicologist, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• N Roeleveld, Epidemiologist, Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen
• DH Waalkens-Berendsen, Reproductive toxicologist, TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist
• PJJM Weterings, Toxicologist, Weterings Consultancy BV, Rosmalen
• ASAM van der Burght,  Health Council of the Netherlands, Den Haag, scientific secretary

The first draft of the present document was prepared by MEM Kuilman and DH Waalkens-Berendsen, from the TNO Nutrition and Food Research in Zeist, by contract with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.