Adam Peters, PhD is a Principal Consultant at wca environment and an environmental chemist with over 10 years of experience in environmental consultancy, environmental regulation and academia. He has been responsible for management of environmental aspects of the Notification of New Substances scheme and the Existing Substances Regulations in the UK, and has recently been a regular attendee as an expert for metals-related issues at European Commission TCNES. He has been closely involved with the development of Environmental Quality Standards for metals and the preparation of the Metals Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance (MERAG).
Adam’s main areas of expertise are in the assessment of environmental fate, behaviour, bioavailability and effects of trace metals in relation to the use of biotic ligand models; environmental risk assessment of industrial chemicals; assessment of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) substances; Hazard assessment of waste materials and their recovery; and development and validation of environmental quality standards for metals and metalloids.
