Development of an environmental toxicology/ecotoxicology unit in the State General Laboratory of Cyprus, report of a consultancy, december 1992

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The State General Laboratory is a department of the Ministery of Health. Cyprus has applied for full membership to the EC. It therefore needs to comply with the anticipated EC-regulations with regard to toxicological and ecotoxicological testing. In view of several arguments the State General Laboratory found it necessary to start discussions on the development of a special unit that should in due time complement the SGL activities so that the compliance as to hazardous compounds and the environmental exposure are actually observed. This in fact means the development of an environmental Toxicology/Ecotoxicology unit (see various reports) of the Cyprian government. In order to enable the SGL to start with this completely new field of expertise the assistance was asked from author of this report. In december a mission was undertaken to analyse the problems and to provide advise on how to develop a new unit of environmental toxicology/ecotoxicology. This report gives a short review of the discussions and related observations follwed by a set of conclusions and recommendations.