ECETOC Task Force proposes a science-based testing strategy to predict if a chemical has the potential to disrupt the thyroid hormone system in humans

The ECETOC Thyroxine (T4) Task Force has developed a new science-based tiered testing strategy that aims to predict if substances have the potential to significantly disrupt the thyroid hormone sy...

14.12.2023 Read more

Task force highlights lack of data and tools for assessing consumers’ aggregate exposure to chemicals

Brussels, 11 December 2023 – A task force from the Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) has highlighted a lack of both good data and cross-industry-sector tools and guidance for assessing...

11.12.2023 Read more

HSSD Tool

This software was developed by a consortium of partners to facilitate the uptake of novel approaches to estimate aquatic threshold concentrations (e.g. the concentration at which 5% of the species are exposed above their EC50, HC5).

03.10.2025 Read more

The Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB)

heatdb is a public directory of exposure data sources as well as available tools for exposure

03.10.2025 Read more

NanoApp

ECETOC’s NanoApp is a tool designed to define the boundaries of sets of similar nanoforms and to generate a justification for the REACH registration.

03.10.2025 Read more

Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

The Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) estimates exposures to workers, consumers and the environment that arise during a series of events.

03.10.2025 Read more

Special T4 Task Force

Why? A potential connection between reduction of thyroid hormones, in particular thyroxine (T4), and impaired neuronal (mental) development in children is being discussed. This debate has caused un...

07.08.2018 Read more

DNEL Derivation Guidance

The ECETOC DNEL Derivation Guidance (2010) – which provides the technical underpinnings by which many/most of industry DNELs (derived no-effect levels) were developed in 2010 and post-2010 – are u...

02.08.2018 Read more

Assessing the human health and environmental safety of polymers

Why? Polymers pose technical/scientific challenges for risk assessment. Polymers are versatile and complex, and generally not present as mono-constituent substances, but as complex polymer produ...

25.05.2018 Read more

28.01.2020 - 29.01.2020

Environmental Sciences Scoping Meeting 2020

ECETOC and CEFIC LRI convened the Environmental Sciences Scoping Meeting 2020 that took place on 28 and 29 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Aproximately 60 invited participants from Europe and North America representing ECETOC and CEFIC member companies, academia, regulators, and consultancies attended the meeting.

Olivier de Matos (Secretary General, ECETOC, Belgium) and Bruno Hubesch (Cefic LRI, Belgium) opened the meeting, outlined its agenda and provided an overview of activities that were initiated and conducted since the 2019 Environmental Sciences Scoping Meeting.

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Considerations for the development of guidance on dose level selection for developmental and reproductive toxicity studies

Workshop Report no.38 – Exploring best practices in quantitative AOPs (qAOPs)

ECETOC 2022 Scoping Meeting

ECETOC 2022 Annual General Meeting

ECETOC Task Force proposes a science-based testing strategy to predict if a chemical has the potential to disrupt the thyroid hormone system in humans

Task force highlights lack of data and tools for assessing consumers’ aggregate exposure to chemicals

HSSD Tool

The Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB)

NanoApp

Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

Special T4 Task Force

DNEL Derivation Guidance

Assessing the human health and environmental safety of polymers

Environmental Sciences Scoping Meeting 2020