Recent Projects

  • Literature reviews for endocrine disrupting properties of plant protection product active ingredients
  • Support of a tiered approach to evaluate endocrine effects in aquatic organisms for CEFIC
  • Statistical analysis of fish lifecycle studies for OECD
  • Assessment of regulatory testing strategies and methods for characterising the ecotoxicological hazards of nanomaterials for Defra
  • Desk based review of current knowledge on pharmaceuticals in drinking water and estimation of potential levels for Defra
  • Review of chronic aquatic toxicity testing of human pharmaceuticals for the Environment Agency
  • Advice on pesticides monitoring for the Environment Agency
  • Advice on human and veterinary medicine risk assessment for various business clients.
  • Advice to the Environment Agency on the risks to non-target wildlife from use of pesticide tank mixes.
  • Advice to the Environment Agency and business clients on environmental risk assessment of human medicines.
  • Scoping study on the impacts of pesticides in the aquatic environment for the Environment Agency.
  • Social acceptability of pesticide impacts on non-target species for Defra
  • Collaboration with the Central Science Laboratory to provide advice to Defra on improved approaches to assessing long-term pesticide risks to birds and mammals
  • Project management for the Environment Agency of work on timber treatments, veterinary medicines in the environment, sheep dip environmental impacts and field test kits for sheep dips
  • Advice on veterinary and pesticide product applications to the Environment Agency pesticides group at the National Centre for Ecotoxicology and Hazardous Substances