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Workshop on Alternatives to Animal Testing – September the 17th
Results of a Defra-funded project on Alternatives to Animal Testing will be presented at a free to attend one-day meeting in Leeds on 17th September.
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ECOVIGILANCE – An essential requirement for the maintenance of biodiversity.
How do we add value to the ad-hoc biological monitoring already being undertaken so that the data generated might be used to minimise any environmental damage.
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Water Sustainability and the Food Industry
wca environment’s Chairman, John Fawell, has recently worked on several water sustainability projects for food companies. Water footprint is becoming much more important for many companies – and this is particularly the case for various parts of the food industry, which has been scrutinised and subsequently criticised by many green groups.
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Paper on Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Endocrine Active Substances
This paper has now been published. Members of SETAC can download it free, and an abstract is available to everyone.
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Environmental Quality Standards and Field Evidence
We have recently been using a new approach to derive an Environmental Quality Standard for iron from ecological field evidence. The approach has the potential to align acceptable levels of iron in the environment with established levels of ecological quality under the Water Framework Directive. This has never been possible before, and may allow a much greater degree of integration of chemical and ecological criteria for freshwater in the future.
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Regulatory developments in environmental risk assessment of endocrine disruptors
A shift from fundamental research on endocrine disruption (ED) to a regulatory context was evident at SETAC Europe this year, with only one plenary and accompanying poster session dedicated to regulatory developments in environmental risk assessment of endocrine disruptors. Presentations and posters on more fundamental research were fitted in under other relevant sessions, such as fate and effects of pharmaceuticals or pesticides.
