Peter Simpson is an environmental toxicologist with over 10 years experience in regulatory ecotoxicity testing, method development and chemicals risk assessment. He also has expertise in ‘Environmental Foresight’ - evidence-based research into emerging environmental issues.
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Refinement of risk assessment for use in socioeconomic analysis under REACH
We were recently invited by the Luxembourg Environment Agency to undertake a short project to investigate the potential of candidate methods to translate conventional risk assessment outputs into metrics that could be more readily “valued” as part of a socioeconomic assessment.
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wca environment at SETAC Europe Milan 2011
Graham, Ed and I attended the SETAC Europe Conference in Milan last week. We’re sustaining members of SETAC Europe and, as always, it was nice to catch up with friends and colleagues at our stand, meet new people and attend some interesting sessions.
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SETAC Special Science Symposium on the environmental risk assessment of chemical mixtures
Last week I attended the 3rd SETAC Europe Special Science Symposium in Brussels. The symposium was entitiled the “Prospective and retrospective environmental risk assessment of mixtures: Moving from research to regulation”
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Assessing the biological effects of nanomaterials
Last week I went to a technical workshop organised by NanoImpactNet on the hazard assessment of nanomaterials in Biota. The objective of the workshop was to identify problems and potential solutions when studying the biological effects of nanomaterials. It was hoped that some agreement could be reached in terms of modifications required to ecotoxicity methods for fundamental research and more applied regulatory testing.
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How to assess the toxicity of mixtures
This week I’ve been sent back to school to learn all about the latest techniques to understand, model and predict the toxicity of mixtures. Is the toxicity of a mixture the sum of its parts, or more or less than them? I’m going to find out.
