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UK Coalition Government & Animal Testing
The UK Government intends to ban animal testing on household products.
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Socioeconomic assessment under REACH (again!)
A few weeks ago I mentioned an ECHA workshop that I attended in Helsinki at which I gave a presentation on translating risk assessment outputs into socioeconomic analysis inputs. Presentations and other useful information from this meeting have now been uploaded by ECHA onto their website and can be found here. I clearly made a [...]
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Eric Grist
Eric Grist, PhD is a mathematical and statistical research scientist with diverse experience in developing and applying quantitative approaches in the fields of ecology, fisheries and ecotoxicology. These include individual-based dynamic models for describing synchrony of natural populations; Bayesian and frequentist statistical techniques to estimate community responses to pollutants and safe thresholds from species sensitivity [...]
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n-hexane linked to adverse health effects in China
I was recently contacted by a Guardian newspaper journalist to provide some background on the properties of n-hexane. A number of people at an electronics plant in China were exposed to n-hexane following the introduction of this chemical as a cleaning and degreasing agent for mobile phone touchscreens.
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Mode of Action – A paradigm shift in the risk assessment of micropollutants?
As analytical science becomes capable of detecting smaller and smaller amounts of material, do we need a paradigm shift in our approach to risk assessment for product regulation?
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Green Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
A former colleague of mine, Dr Vyv Coombe and I have just published a chapter on the environmental and regulatory aspects of Green Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Industry in a new book.
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wca environment at SETAC Europe in Seville
wca environment will once again be heading to SETAC Europe this year, which is hosted in Seville from the 23rd to the 27th of May.
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