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- Evaluation of endocrine disrupting properties of a CoRAP listed substance
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- Risk Assessment of Multiple Extractables from Components of an MDI
- Risk Assessment of HFAs used as Propellants in Autoinjector systems
- Data collection relating to the use of cobalt
- Translating ERA outputs into socio-economic analysis inputs under REACH
- Preparation of an ecolabel application for a cleaning product
- Derivation of Water Framework Directive Environmental Quality Standards
- Classifying waterbodies affected by abandoned metals mines under the WFD
- Review of current European practice of MBT compost-like output
- User-friendly tool for calculating the bioavailability of metals under the WFD: bio-met.net
- Lead Consultant on REACH for Johnson Matthey
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- Higher Olefins and Poly Alpha Olefins (HOPA) REACH registration project
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- Field validation of the nickel EQS
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- Effects on iron on ecological communities
- Biotic Ligand Model for Manganese
- Silver levels in the aquatic environment
- Refinement of risk assessment for use in socioeconomic analysis under REACH
- wca at SETAC Europe Milan 2011
- Simplifying the implementation of bioavailability-based water quality standards for metals
- Soil Quality Standards for Trace Elements: Derivation, Implementation, and Interpretation
- Paper on Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Endocrine Active Substances
- Green Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- wca at SETAC Europe in Seville
- Regulatory Limits for Trace Elements in Soils
- Application of Uncertainty Analysis to Ecological Risks of Pesticides
- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Detecting the Effects of Endocrine Active Substances in Fish Life Cycle Tests
- Use of compost-like output from mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) plants
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- Bioavailability Implementation Forum SETAC Europe 2017 - Brussels
- Two day SEPA training course on Chemical Risk Assessment for the Environment
- Italian Training on BLMs and Bioavailability of Metals
- Bioavailability Implementation Forum SETAC Europe - Nantes; Meeting the challenges of implementing bioavailability-based EQS for metals
- Workshop on Derivation and Application of Water Quality Guidelines: EQSPAE 2016
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- Blog Archive: 2016
- New Ecolabel category: Furniture
- Environmental risk assessment of antibiotics
- 7th SETAC World Congress and 37th SETAC North America Annual Meeting
- Italian National Guideline on biota monitoring and Biotic Ligand Models
- Abstract Submission for SETAC Europe 2017
- Does the scientific underpinning of regulatory tools to estimate bioavailability matter?
- SETAC Asia/Pacific in Singapore 16th to 19th September 2016
- Can Chemical Water Quality Standards developed by one jurisdiction be applied in other countries or regions?
- WCA's commitment to our EU clients following the outcome of the United Kingdom referendum.
- Italian Training on BLMs and Bioavailability of Metals; 24th June – CNR-IRSA (Brugherio, Italy)
- The 2nd International Conference on Deriving Environmental Quality Standards for the Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems (EQSPAE – 2016)
- wca at SETAC Nantes - A Review
- Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) and Regulatory Acceptance
- Assessment of Pressures on European Water Bodies Workshop JRC Ispra, Italy, 11-12 May 2016
- Bioavailability Implementation Forum; Meeting the challenges of implementing bioavailability-based EQS for metals
- wca at SETAC-Europe Nantes May 22nd – May 26th
- wca at SETAC Nantes
- IUCLID 6 released
- The importance of the Ecolabel in a Circular Economy
- Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting - Day 3
- Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting - Day 2
- Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting - Day 1
- Concept, tools and strategies for effluent testing: An International Workshop
- wca at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
- Lead Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) Screening Tool
- Assessing the Reliability and Relevance of Aquatic Toxicity Studies Under the WFD
- Cost vs Benefit in Chemicals Risk Management
- Interdepartmental Group on Health Risks from Chemicals (IGHRC) Awareness Day - REACH Update
- wca branches out to consortium administration tasks
- SETAC Pellston Workshop™: Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment Approaches for Endocrine Active Chemicals (EHRA)
- Are the Biotic Ligand Models (BLM) suitable for assessing the ecological risk of metals in Nordic freshwaters?
- Blog Archive: 2015
- Chemicals legislation benefits indicators
- There is a Conflict at the Heart of EU Water Pollution Policy
- Outputs from Terrestrial Bioaccumulation workshop
- The Manganese Showcase Symposium
- Environmental Risks of Nickel in Southeast Asia and Melanesia
- The Pharmaceutical Industry – An introduction
- Still Only One Earth
- REACH in the Aviation Industry
- Environmental Regulations and the Green Chemist
- SEGH – Bratislava, 22-26 June
- REACH: The importance of substance identity
- SETAC Europe – Barcelona, 3-7 May
- Non-animal testing for skin sensitisation – some regulatory acceptable alternatives
- wca Abstracts Accepted for SETAC Barcelona
- Vacancy for Senior Consultant (Toxicology)
- Blog Archive: 2014
- ECETOC SSDs Workshop Report
- Metal Bioavailability Assessment Tool
- SETAC North America, Vancouver
- Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – A Debate
- Validation of mollusc reproduction test
- SETAC Asia-Pacific, Adelaide
- ETAC Asia-Pacific, Adelaide
- Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: DEFRA scoping the issues workshop
- PBT assessments using a weight of evidence approach
- Cost Benefit Analysis of Reduction in Pharmaceutical Residues in the Environment
- The Tropical Environmental Risk Assessment of Nickel
- SETAC Europe Annual Meeting 2014
- Publication of Category 4 Screening Levels for Contaminated Land
- Workshop: Non-dietary human exposure assessment of biocide products
- wca welcomes highly experienced scientists to its Mammalian and Environmental Toxicology teams
- January 2014 ‘Environmental Science and Pollution Research’ – Special Issue on EQS
- Blog Archive: 2013
- Protected: SEPA Organic Chemicals
- Protected: Drafting supplementary guidance for the implementation of EQSbiota
- Passive Samplers Workshop – Brno, Czech Republic – July 2013
- Pharmaceuticals in the environment: is there a problem? PHARMAS Conference – Nimes 2-3 June 2013
- wca at SETAC 2013 in Glasgow
- Implementing Ecopharmacovigilance in Practice: Challenges and Potential Opportunities
- REACH – One month to go and looking ahead
- Visit us at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting
- Pharmaceuticals in the environment – Is there a problem?
- Seminar on Product Authorisation under the Biocidal Products Directive
- wca look towards the 2013 REACH deadline
- Regulation of nanomaterials in Europe
- SETAC Europe 2013 in Glasgow
- Blog Archive: 2012
- Weight of Evidence Assessments – Whose evidence can be trusted
- Health and Safety in Laboratories
- Updates to the bio-met metal bioavailability tool planned to extend applicability range
- The Society for Environmental Toxicology And Chemistry (SETAC)
- SETAC Global Advisory Group on Endocrine Disrupter Testing & Risk Assessment (EDTRA)
- Derivation of Chemical Limit Values for Water Quality: An International Perspective
- wca contribute to the development of new screening criteria for contaminated land risk assessment
- Aquatic Toxicology Symposium
- EU commission publishes plan for chemical mixtures
- SETAC Europe and SETAC World Congress – Berlin 2012
- One year to go to the 2013 REACH registration deadline!
- REACH: Socio-Economic Assessments
- SETAC World Congress / SETAC Europe Meeting – Berlin
- 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- WHAM7 metal speciation modelling software released
- SETAC workshop on the synthesis, characterisation, ecotoxicity, hazard and risk assessment of engineered nanoparticles
- Blog Archive: 2011
- Strategies for Sustainability
- Quantitative risk assessment for contaminated land
- wca support Movember
- Ecopharmacovigilance – An update
- COMING SOON: 2013 REACH Registration Deadline
- OECD workshop on the environmental assessment of metals
- Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
- Launch of REACH Compliance Assist
- Green Initiatives in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- European Commission Workshop on Metal Bioavailability and the Water Framework Directive – June 21st
- Can REACH PNECs be used as Environmental Standards for non-European Countries?
- Peer Review
- How to consider waste under REACH
- SETAC Special Science Symposium on the environmental risk assessment of chemical mixtures
- Blog Archive: 2010
- Are University Press Officers bringing science into disrepute and are they being aided and abetted by their academics?
- Nanomaterial Provisions and Compliance under REACH
- National legislation of nanomaterials in the context of REACH
- Nanomaterials: Definitions and registrations under REACH
- The Regulation of Nanotechnologies under REACH
- wca meet 2010 REACH deadline for 400 substances
- Substance Avoidance Lists: What are they and how can you keep track of them?
- Future directions for REACH: 2011 to the 2013 deadline
- The EU Ecolabel: A growing environmental standard
- Hazard vs Risk in EU Chemicals Regulation
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Dealing with the Uncertainty of Non-Test Methods under REACH
- ECOPHARMACOVIGILANCE – Where next?
- Manufacturing Using Sustainable Chemistry (MUSC)
- Future Directions for Biocides Regulation in the EU
- European Lubricants Industry Annual Congress
- Horizon Scanning – How to add value not additional cost
- New website on Alternatives to Animal Testing
- Assessing the biological effects of nanomaterials
- SUBSTITUTION – What?, Why? and How?
- Workshop on Alternatives to Animal Testing – September the 17th
- Water Sustainability and the Food Industry
- ECOVIGILANCE – An essential requirement for the maintenance of biodiversity.
- Environmental Quality Standards and Field Evidence
- Regulatory developments in environmental risk assessment of endocrine disruptors
- Ecopharmacostewardship – A pharmaceutical industry perspective
- UK Coalition Government & Animal Testing
- Socioeconomic assessment under REACH (again!)
- n-hexane linked to adverse health effects in China
- Mode of Action – A paradigm shift in the risk assessment of micropollutants?
- Converting Environmental Risk Assessment Outputs into Socioeconomic Impact Assessment Inputs under REACH
- Report from the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- Blog Archive: 2009
- Thresholds of Toxicological Concern for Endocrine Active Substances in the Aquatic Environment
- Bioavailability based standards for metals are practical and accessible tools for regulators and stakeholders
- Evidence that population level chemical impacts can sometimes be reversed
- How to identify an endocrine disrupting compound
- Announcing the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- wca further enhance their capability in contaminated land and waste recycling
- Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil
- Beyond Regulation: Risk Pricing & Responsible Innovation
- UK develops nanotechnology strategy
- A Pragmatic Approach to the Precautionary Principle
- Computational approaches under REACH
- “Is Sustainable Development Sustainable” – An Economist Debate
- DEFRA Chemical Stakeholder Forum
- Towards Green Pharmacy
- How to assess the toxicity of mixtures
- Sustainable Development & Production of Human Pharmaceuticals
- Metals risk assessment at SETAC 2009
- wca at SETAC Goteborg 2009
- Programme for the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- Blog Archive: 2016
- Endocrine Disruption: What Does the Future Hold for Safety Assessment?
- Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo™ 2017
- Workshop: Applying exposure science to increase the utility of non-animal data in the efficacy and safety testing
- “Effects Based Tools” (EBT) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD)
- 56th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo™, Baltimore (Maryland, US): Day 1
- Society of Toxicology 56th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo™, Baltimore (Maryland, US): Day 2
- 56th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo™, Baltimore (Maryland, US): Day 3
- 56th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo™, Baltimore (Maryland, US): The last day
- Workshop on Thyroid Disruption
- wca at SETAC Brussels
- SETAC Europe Brussels 2017; Day 1 and 2
- metalsintheenvironment.com has been launched
- SETAC Europe Brussels 2017; Day 3 and 4
- SETAC Europe Brussels 2017; Day 5
- Expert workshop on test methods for evaluating endocrine disrupters
- Rinse-off Cosmetic Ecolabels: Lessons Learned
- Putting the Read Across Assessment Framework into practice
- Sector specific guidance for REACH registrations
- 3rd International Conference on Endocrine Disruptors
- Active pharmaceutical ingredients entering the aquatic environment from wastewater treatment works: A cause for concern?
- 28th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting (Rome; 13th - 17th May 2018)
- ECETOC Seven Steps for the Identification of Endocrine Disrupting Properties (ECETOC 7SI-ED)
- New article on weight of evidence approaches for endocrine disrupters
- SETAC Workshop on Bioavailability-Based Freshwater Quality Criteria for Metals
- wca at SETAC Rome
- Nanosilver less toxic than ionic silver in standardised ecotoxicity tests
- SETAC Rome 2018 Day 1
- SETAC Rome 2018; Day 2
- SETAC Rome 2018; Days 3 and 4
- Endocrine disruptors and biocides
- Validation of the nickel biotic ligand model for locally relevant species in Australian freshwaters
- Joint Northern Contaminated Land Fora Summer Conference 2018 - Hosted by Yorkshire Contaminated Land Forum, 10th July
- Beyond registration…what next for REACH?
- Updating and upgrading NONS registrations under REACH
- 2018 EcoForum Meeting in Sydney from the 2nd to 4th October 2018
- Refinery effluent assessment: Options for using effects-based tools in combination with passive samplers
- Update from the UK government of no deal Brexit on chemical regulation
- wca in New Caledonia
- ALGA PFAS Summit, Sydney ICC; 2nd October
- 29th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting (Helsinki; 26th - 30th May 2019)
- ET&C Editors Spotlight
- HSE & Defra Meeting: Chemicals EU Exit Stakeholder Event
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