2010

Representation at specific meetings or input to specific projects:

ECETOC has represented its members in the following specific initiatives:

• CESIO / CES / EFFCI / LRI Workshop: Applicability of skin sensitisation testing methods for regulatory purposes
  Brussels, Belgium
  2-3 February 2010
  ECETOC was represented by Christa Hennes

• JRC Workshop: Aquatic ecotoxiology - can we improve its influence on policies and risk management
  Copenhagen, Denmark
  6-7 May 2010
  ECETOC was represented by Stuart Marshall of Unilever

On-going expert groups 2010-2011

ECETOC represents its members in the following on-going expert groups:

• WHO/IPCS Harmonisation Project Core Group
  ECETOC was represented by John Doe of Syngenta and Chairman of the ECETOC Scientific Committee, followed by Ben van Ravenzwaay of BASF, Member of the ECETOC Scientific Committee

• Consultative Forum on Environment and Health organised by EU Commission
  ECETOC was represented by Peter Boogaard of Shell

• ECHA Risk Assessment Committee (RAC)
  ECETOC was represented by Marie-Louise Meisters of DuPont and Chris Money of ExxonMobil

• ECHA Member States Committee (MSC)
  ECETOC was represented by David Owen of Shell and Neil Carmichael of ECETOC

• ECHA Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC)
  ECETOC was represented by Christa Hennes of ECETOC who presented the status of its related Task Force at a SEAC meeting in March 2010 in Helsinki

• ECHA Partner Experts Groups (PEGs)
  ECETOC was represented by 16 industry experts from the ECETOC network

• ECVAM Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC)
  ECETOC was represented by Neil Carmichael of ECETOC

• Framework Programme Integrated Project ‘OSIRIS'
  ECETOC was represented in the Advisory Panel by Watze de Wolf of DuPont, followed by David Owen of Shell. Christa Hennes of ECETOC participated in the third OSIRIS stakeholder Workshop in March 2010 in Berlin

• Framework Programme Co-ordination Action Project ‘NORMAN'
  ECETOC was represented in the Advisory Panel by Watze de Wolf of DuPont, followed by Stuart Marshall of Unilever

• OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials
  ECETOC was represented (via BIAC) in the project on alternative methods in nanotoxicology by Monika Maier of Evonik, David Warheit and Mike Kaplan, both of DuPont

• Nanogenotox EU-Funded Joint Action
  ECETOC participated in the stakeholder consultation via Maria Donner of DuPont and Markus Schulz of BASF

Presentations and Posters

• SETAC Europe Annual Meeting:
  Seville, Spain
  23-27 May 2010

  - Guidance on identification of endocrine disrupting chemicals (platform and poster presentation by Arnd Weyers, Bayer CropScience.

  - Risk assessment approaches for PBT/vPvB or POPs (poster with communication by Ian Malcomber, Unilever.

  - Bound residues (poster in the LRI booth by Malyka Galay Burgos, ECETOC.

• ECPA Regulatory Conference
  Seville, Spain
  27-28 May 2010
  ECETOC was represented by Neil Carmichael of ECETOC; he presented the ECETOC report on ‘Guidance on identification of endocrine disrupting chemicals'

• IUTOX 2010
  Barcelona, Spain
  19-23 July 2010
  WHO framework (on combined exposure to multiple chemicals in risk assessment) case study: carbamates (platform presentation by Elizabeth Shipp of BayerCropscience)

• Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting
  Salt Lake City, USA
  05-08 December 2010
  Integration of Human and Animal Data in Chemical Risk Assessment (poster presentation by Dr Karlene S. Lavelle (ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, USA).

• SETAC North America Annual Meeting
  Portland, Oregon, USA
  07-11 November 2010
  Bridging Science With Communities
  ECETOC was represented by Todd Gouin of Unilever