The Effects of Chemicals on Mammalian Fertility The Report and Recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 53 — the First Strategic Workshop of the EU ReProTect Project

Susanne Bremer, Donatella Balduzzi, Rita Cortvrindt, George Daston, Brighitta Eletti, Andrea Galli, Ilpo Huhtaniemi, Susan Laws, Giovanna Lazzari, Ulla Liminga, Johan Smitz, Marcello Spano, Axel Themmen, Anne Tilloy and Ine Waalkens-Behrends

This is the 53rd report from a series of workshops organised by the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM), which are aimed at contributing to the scientific and regulatory acceptance of alternative methods which are relevant to the biosciences and which reduce, refine or replace the use of laboratory animals. Entitled The Effects of Chemicals on Mammalian Fertility, the workshop built on the report and recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 12, jointly organised by ECVAM and the European Teratology Society in 1994, and was held in Ispra, Italy, on 16–18 June 2004, under the co-chairmanship of Susanne Bremer, Sandra Coecke, Rita Cortvrindt and George Daston.