Styrene; Evaluation of the effects on reproduction, recommendation for classification

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 styrene.

Committee

• BJ Blaauboer, Toxicologist, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), 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 Waalkends-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