Articles about our recent achievements, research findings and general company news.
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Strategies for Sustainability
Strategies for Sustainability A further contribution of mine to the debate on moving towards a sustainable pharmaceutical industry has recently been published in European Pharmaceutical Contractor.
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Quantitative risk assessment for contaminated land
The discipline of chemical risk assessment for contaminated land continues to be in a state of flux. The Environment Agency published revised technical guidance and updated versions of the CLEA model in 2008 and 2009 but funding issues and re-organisations within the Agency appear to have left the job finished as updated guidance has not been issued for some of the commonly occurring and ‘difficult’ contaminants.
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wca environment support Movember
Several of the more gullible (or brave??) male wca staff recently took part in this year’s Movember. For those who don’t know this is the month long moustache growing competition that takes place each year in November in aid of Men’s heath. A brief gallery of their “achievements” is shown below. So far the wca [...]
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Ecopharmacovigilance – An update
Interest in ecopharmacovigilance has been given a boost by the appearance of a new EU Directive and associated regulation revising the law on pharmacovigilance.
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COMING SOON: 2013 REACH Registration Deadline
Under REACH, European industry has to face the 2013 deadline for the registration of all phase-in substances manufactured or imported in the EU above 100 tonnes per year.
All the companies involved in this phase should start work now to make sure that they have time to fulfill all the obligations required for the registration.

