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    • Evaluation of endocrine disrupting properties of a CoRAP listed substance
    • Chemical factsheets to inform business risks of potential endocrine disrupters
    • Weight of evidence reviews for endocrine disrupting properties of plant protection product active substances
    • REACH Projects for Consortia and Companies
    • 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
    • REACH support for catalyst industry
    • Higher Olefins and Poly Alpha Olefins (HOPA) REACH registration project
    • Environmental risk assessment of human medicines
    • Development of a Code of Practice for using recycled organic materials in land reclamation in the UK
  • Publications
    • Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Is there a problem?
    • Deriving site specific Quality Standards for metals
    • Field validation of the nickel EQS
    • Ecological Indicators for abandoned metal mines
    • Stability of Trace Substances in Wastewater Effluents
    • 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
  • Downloads
    • 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
    • Lead Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) Screening Tool
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      • Owen Green
      • Becky Marks
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      • Ed Stutt
      • Rhiannon Smith
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    • Blog Archive
      • 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
    • 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
    • Call-off contracts and REACH training
    • Fresenius Endocrine Disrupter Conference, Cologne
    • Environmental risk assessment of medicinal products
    • What happens under REACH if there is no deal?
    • Ecolabelling in the UK after Brexit
    • REACH update - Dossier evaluation decisions
    • Assessing Compliance of European Fresh Waters for Copper: Accounting for Bioavailability
    • Priorities for the UK chemicals sector - challenges, opportunities and the future for regulation post-Brexit
    • Comparison of the chronic toxicity of nickel to temperate and tropical freshwater species
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