Regarding these concerns and uncertainties, especially with respect to the precautionary principle, short-chain PFASs are of equivalent concern to PBT substances.
57(f) classifications may also be founded on GHS criteria such as respiratory or skin sensitisation which is, according to ECHA, of equivalent concern to CMRs.
(f) The substance indicates to raise an equivalent concern to the cases above, e.g. having endocrine-disrupting properties, and thus having serious effects on humans and the environment.
The definition of borderline chemicals and the directly implemented screening approach help to prioritize potential substances of very high concern or of equivalent concern out of a long list of chemicals.
Here, it is also recommended to include 'borderline cases', i.e. substances where one or more of the P, B and T criteria are not met but an equivalent concern is given by other information, in particular LRTP.
Chemicals with (very) persistent, (very) bioaccumulative, and toxic properties (PBT and vPvB compounds), substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxic to reproduction (CMR compounds), as well as chemicals of equivalent concern like endocrine disruptors (EDs), see Box 1, and sensitizers may be subject to authorization.
57 f) is suggesting as substances of an equivalent concern such as those having endocrine disrupting properties or those having persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic properties or very persistent and very bioaccumulative properties, which do not fulfil the criteria of Annex XIII.
Opponents talk with great angst about oil rig workers losing jobs during the moratorium, but somehow fail to conjure up equivalent concern for the fisherman now out of work or the hotel and restaurant workers who will no longer get a paycheck with the implosion of tourism.
Both irradiation schemes, continuous and fractionated, turned out to be exactly equivalent concerning the therapeutic efficacy in this model.
However, surprisingly, decisions in favour of PD only occur in 5% of all cases in Germany, even though both modalities are regarded as equivalent concerning mortality [ 2, 3].
