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Toxicological information on chemicals published in the Russian language: Contribution to REACH and 3Rs

“…Despite that, valuable toxicological data published in the Russian language have remained non-cited in recent scientific papers (Hakkinen and Green, 2002;Schwela and Hakkinen, 2004;Poppenga and Spoo, 2002;Junghans et al, 2004;Young, 2002;Russom, 2002;Winter, 2002;Wolfgang and Johnson, 2002;Felsot, 2002;Gilardi and Fubini, 2005) except when these were the only information sources available concerning a particular compound (Polifka and Faustman, 2002). Within the frame of the EC FP6 Integrated Project OSIRIS, the Estonian partner (research group of Dr. A. Kahru) proposed to collect those materials due to their knowledge of the Russian language and their access to the corresponding literature archived in Estonian libraries during the last century.…”