The April 2012 edition of the ECETOC e-newsletter has just been published and is attached to this news item. It can also be downloaded from the following link: http://bit.ly/ecetoc-enl22

This issue includes an update on the Targeted Risk Assessment Tool version 3 which will be released in the coming days and associated workshop in May;  our Secretary General reviews 20 years of debate over endocrine disrupting chemicals; details are given for the 2012 ECETOC annual meetings; new publications and upcoming activities are announced, including a symposium at EEMS on epigenetics and chemical safety following from last December’s workshop on the same subject, and the planning of a workshop on the persistence of chemicals in the environment.

Table of contents

Front page

• TRA version 3 and associated workshop

• SG Corner: endocrine disrupting chemicals

Page 2

• Scientific Committee News

• 2012 annual meetings

• Latest publications

Page 3

• ECETOC publishes report on development

of guidance for assessing the impact

of mixtures of chemicals in the aquatic

environment

• ECETOC publishes report on refined

approaches for risk assessment of PBT/vPvB

chemicals

Page 4

• ECETOC publishes report on linear PDMS

• 2012 environment progress review

• Symposium at EEMS on epigenetics and

chemical safety

• ECETOC session at EUROTOX 2012

Page 5

• Persistence workshop planned

• New task force

• NANOGENOTOX workshop

Page 6

• EUROECOTOX conference

• Agenda