Events

Upcoming Events

09.07.2025 - 10.07.2025

Immunotoxicity assessment: Addressing Challenges and Advancing Methodologies

ECETOC is proud to invite you to a groundbreaking workshop on "Immunotoxicity Assessment: Addressing Challenges and Advancing Methodologies" taking place on July 9-10, 2025, in Brussels. This timely...

15.10.2025 - 17.10.2025

2025 ICCA MARII Workshop

Join global experts and researchers in Madrid on 15-17 October to find out the latest in the field of microplastics research and innovation. At this year's workshops, professionals from the ICCA MARII...

28.10.2025 - 29.10.2025

ECETOC-VHP4Safety-ONTOX: Application of Digital Infrastructures Leveraging AI in Human Health Risk Assessment

28-29 October 2025, Brussels. ECETOC, VHP4Safety and ONTOX invite you to save the date for this upcoming interactive workshop, with experts from industry, academia, and regulatory bodies to exp...

19.06.2025

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 6: Advancing Risk-Based Solutions

Join us on 19 June for the sixth webinar of this series, where Dr. Todd Gouin will challenge the audience by asking whether risk assessment is the best way to approach the issue of microplastics relea...

18.06.2025

Advancing the Science of Non-EATS Modalities: Tackling Challenges in Metabolic Disorder Assessment

While established criteria for identifying endocrine-disrupting (ED) properties in plant protection products and biocides focus on EATS modalities, the scope is expanding to non-EATS mechanisms, where...

05.06.2025

ECETOC Annual General Meeting and Symposium

At the 2025 Symposium, which followed ECETOC's Annual General Meeting, speakers discussed the shifts in trust in science, the many factors involved in the perception of risk and the need for clear, co...

27.03.2025

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 5: Environmental Impact of Microplastics

In the fifth webinar of this series, Camilla Carteny from Plastics Europe explores with Dr Richard Cross (UKCEH) and Dr Andy Booth, (SINTEF Ocean, Norway) the fate and effects of microplastics in soil...

18.02.2025

Webinar: Advancing Best Practices in DART Dose Selection

18 February 2025 | Since 2019, the ECETOC Dose Selection Task Force has been advancing best practices in dose-setting for toxicity studies. In 2024, their latest recommendations on dose selecti...

21.01.2025 - 22.01.2025

Overcoming challenges and advancing (bio)degradation guidelines: OECD TG309 revisited

21-22 January 2025 The OECD 309 test guideline (Aerobic Mineralisation in Surface Water), last updated in April 2004, plays a pivotal role in understanding the environmental fate of chemicals and i...

07.11.2024

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 4: Microplastic Health Effects

7 November September 2024 | 2-3:30 pm CET | Online In this webinar, a panel of experts explored the pressing issue of microplastics and their impact on human health. Dr. Raymond Pieters, Utrech...

16.10.2024 - 17.10.2024

Integrating AI into chemical safety assessment – Opportunities, challenges, and the path forward

16-17 October 2024 Sophia Antipolis, France While AI opens a world of possibilities for chemical safety assessment, the rapid integration of its technologies presents significant challenges incl...

24.09.2024 - 25.09.2024

ECETOC & Cefic LRI 2024 Scoping Meeting

24-25 September 2024, DoubleTree by Hilton Brussels City, Brussels (and online) The 2024 ECETOC and Cefic LRI Scoping Meeting offers the opportunity for a broad audience of experts to review, discuss...

12.09.2024

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 3: Developing Standardized Microplastic Methods

The third webinar of this series touched upon MARII's contribution towards developing standardised methods to assess human exposure to nano- and microplastic particles (NMPs) and their potential healt...

08.09.2024

Testing, Assessment and Classification of Thyroid Hormone Disruptors

8 September 2024 | 12:00-16:15 Copenhagen, Denmark This face-to-face workshop will bring together regulatory toxicologists, (clinical) pathologists and experts from European regulatory authoriti...

28.05.2024

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 2: Modelling

28 May 2024 | 2-3:30 pm CET | Online Microplastics have received increased attention in scientific, regulatory, and social forums in recent years. This has resulted in the development of data...

23.05.2024

ECETOC 2024 Extraordinary General Meeting

Are you a delegate from an ECETOC member company? Contact us to register! All ECETOC delegates are invited to attend this yearly event to discuss the strategic, organisational and financia...

23.05.2024

ECETOC Debate: The road to Safe and Sustainable by Design

How can we integrate principles of safety and sustainability into the design process from the outset, and what are the key challenges in doing so? What role can regulations and standards play in promo...

11.04.2024

Closing the Microplastic Information Gap – Webinar 1: Introduction to MARII

11 April 2024 | 2-3:30 pm CET | Online Understanding the impact of microplastics on human health and the environment requires the implementation of systematic, hypothesis-driven research. The I...

27.11.2023

Publication presentation: Towards a science-based testing strategy to identify maternal thyroid hormone imbalance and neurodevelopmental effects in the progeny

Since 2018, ECETOC's Special T4 Task Force has been working on analysing thyroid disruption in rodents and humans (and correlated neurodevelopmental effects). The resulting Thyroid Function-Related Ne...

Chronos and Kairos – Understanding time in biology: Time4NGRA

07.11.2023 - 08.11.2023