Events
Upcoming Events

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...
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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...
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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...
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28.10.2025 - 29.10.2025
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, where experts from industry, academia, and regulatory bodies to explor...
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Past Events
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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23.05.2024
ECETOC 2024 Extraordinary General Meeting
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All ECETOC delegates are invited to attend this yearly event to discuss the strategic, organisational and financia...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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07.11.2023 - 08.11.2023
Chronos and Kairos – Understanding time in biology: Time4NGRA
This workshop explored the need and approaches to study the influence of time and level of biological organization (population, organism, tissues, cells etc.) in toxicity testing in next generation ri...
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25.10.2023 - 26.10.2023
Elevating exposure science in chemical safety management – Developing recommendations for stakeholders
25-26 October 2023 | Alicante, Spain
The workshop took place over two days:
On Day 1, stakeholders from European Institutions, research centres, sector associations and industry highlighted th...
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12.06.2023 - 14.06.2023
2nd ICCA MARII Workshop
2nd ICCA Microplastics Advanced Research and Innovation Initiative (MARII) Workshop
This workshop aims at advancing the field towards a holistic risk assessment for human health and the environment...
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05.06.2023
ECETOC 2023 Annual General Meeting and Debate
Save the date for ECETOC's 2023 Annual General Meeting and debate.
This member-only event will take place in the afternoon of 5 June in Brussels and will be followed by a debate on the future of ri...
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18.10.2022 - 19.10.2022
Workshop on Quantitative Response-Response Relationships (qAOPs)
This event is by invitation only.
For more information, please contact info@ecetoc.org
Workshop background
Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) provide a framework for curating and organising toxicologi...
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13.09.2022 - 14.09.2022
ECETOC 2022 Scoping Meeting
Location: Sparks, Brussels
ECETOC’s 2022 Scoping Meeting offered the opportunity for a broad audience of experts to review, discuss and select topics for ECETOC to focus on in 2022-2024. After it...
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