Contributing to international initiatives

As an organisation, ECETOC serves as the ideal body to scientifically represent the European chemical industry; to liaise and to cooperate on their behalf with European and international scientific stakeholders and to get involved with relevant initiatives either in on-going expert groups or in specific meetings or projects.

On-going expert groups 2009-2010

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

 

Representation at specific meetings or input to specific projects:

ECETOC has represented its members in the following specific initiatives:


  • 6th Framework Programme Co-ordination Action Project ‘RiskBase'
    ECETOC was represented in the Advisory Panel by Andrew Riddle of AstraZeneca
  • 6th Framework Programme Co-ordination Action Project ‘NORMAN'
    ECETOC was represented in the Advisory Panel by Watze de Wolf of DuPont
  • 6th Framework Programme Integrated Project ‘OSIRIS'
    ECETOC was represented in the Advisory Panel by Watze de Wolf of DuPont
  • 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
  • SAFE Consortium Workshop: ‘Dietary Exposure to Endocrine-Active Pesticides'
    Brussels, Belgium. 26-27 November 2009
    Neil Carmichael of ECETOC chaired this workshop
  • DG SANCO Scientific Committee's Stakeholder Dialogue on Risk Assessment
    Brussels, Belgium. 20 November 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Neil Carmichael of ECETOC, Mary Spurgeon of Unilever, Matthias Vey of IFRA and Frederike Wiebel of Henkel.
  • ECHA Workshop: ‘Guidance of DNEL/DMEL from Human Data'
    Helsinki, Finland. 30 October 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Gerard Swaen of Dow Chemicals
  • IARC Meeting on Monograph 100
    Lyon, France. 20 - 27 October 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Gerard Swaen of Dow Chemicals
  • Toxicology Forum - European Meeting
    Brussels, Belgium. 20-22 October 2009
    Douglas McGregor presented the outcome of the task force ‘Guidance for the classification of carcinogens under the globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS)'
    Kim Travis of Syngenta presented the ‘ECETOC framework for the integration of human and animal data in chemical risk assessment'
    Neil Carmichael of ECETOC gave a paper entitled ‘Pesticides, poisonings and the ‘real risk' assessment'
  • DG SANCO Scientific Committee's Scientific Hearing on the Draft Opinion ‘Use of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach for the safety assessment of chemical substances'
    Brussels, Belgium. 24 September 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Detlef Keller of Henkel and Bob Safford of Unilever
  • OECD Countries Activities Regarding Testing, Assessment and Management of Endocrine Disruptors Workshop
    Copenhagen, Denmark. 22-24 September 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Remi Bars of BayerCropscience, Nina Hallmark of ExxonMobil, and James Wheeler of Syngenta from the task force on ‘Guidance on interpreting endocrine disrupting effects within the regulatory context'
  • European Societies of Toxicology Congress (EUROTOX)
    Dresden, Germany. 13-16 September 2009
    Winfried Steiling presented the key conclusions from the task force ‘Potency values from the local lymph node assay: Application to classification, labelling and risk assessment'
  • DG SANCO Scientific Committee's scientific hearing on the opinions ‘Risk assessment of products of nanotechnologies' and ‘Safety of nanomaterials in cosmetic products'
    Brussels, Belgium. 10 September 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Christa Hennes of ECETOC
  • World Congress at Animal Alternatives
    Rome, Italy. 30 August - 3 September 2009
    Neil Carmichael of ECETOC chaired the session ‘Areas of animal use/Chemicals and pesticides'David Owen of Shell presented ECETOC's activities in support of alternatives to animal testing
  • Genomics in Cancer Risk Assessment Workshop
    Venice, Italy. 27-28 August 2009
    ECETOC was represented by John Doe of Syngenta and Chairman of the ECETOC Scientific Committee
  • Nanotechnology - OEH Conference
    Helsinki, Finland. 26-29 August 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Christa Hennes of ECETOC
  • 10th International Conference on Environmental Mutagens, 21-25 August 2009, Florence, Italy.
    ECETOC was represented by Maria Donner (DuPont Haskell, USA), Julie Muller (Solvay, Belgium), Henk Vrijhof (ECETOC, Belgium).
  • Occupational and Environmental Exposure of Skin to Chemicals Conference (OEESC)
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 14-17 June 2009
    John Perkins of Dow AgroSciences presented the concepts developed by the task force on the ‘assessment and evaluation of risks resulting from dermal exposure to chemicals
  • NC3Rs - ‘The 3Rs today' poster event
    London, United Kingdom. 25 March 2009
    Kim Travis of Syngenta presented a poster based on the work of the ECETOC task force on a framework for human data (http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=973
  • International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) meeting
    Cape Town, South Africa. 24 March 2009
    Andreas Flückiger of Hoffmann-La Roche presented the key conclusions from the task force on ‘Guidance for the Interpretation of Biomonitoring Data'
  • ECNIS - NewGeneris Stakeholder Workshop:'Food and Environmental Cancer Risks for Adults and Children'
    Brussels, Belgium. 16 March 2009
    ECETOC was represented by Christa Hennes of ECETOC
  • Workshop on "Exposure and risk assessment of chemical mixtures in consumer products". IHCP (Institute for Health and Consumer Protection) and ECETOC, 29-30 January 2009, Ispra, Italy
    ECETOC was represented by Chris Money (ExxonMobil, Belgium), Peter Boogaard (Shell, Netherlands), Carlos Rodriguez (Proctor & Gamble, Belgium), Henk Vrijhof (ECETOC, Belgium).

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