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29.05.2013

SCIENCE NEWS FLASH: New ECETOC report offers guidance for the inclusion of non-extractable residues (NER) in the risk assessment of chemicals

New ECETOC report offers guidance for the inclusion of non-extractable residues (NER) in the risk assessment of chemicals Brussels, May 2013 There is general agreement that the formation of non-extrac...

29.05.2013

SCIENCE NEWS FLASH: New ECETOC report addresses bioavailable residues in soils and sediments

New ECETOC report addresses bioavailable residues in soils and sediments In environmental risk assessment, chemical residues in soils and sediments are considered insignificant if they are bound to th...

02.04.2013

E-Newsletter issue 24, Apr 2013

The latest edition of the ECETOC e-newsletter has just been published and can be downloaded in PDF format from the following link: http://bit.ly/ecetoc-enl24 Items of particular note in this issue:...

06.03.2013

ECETOC Work on Risk Assessment Wins Prestigious Prize

ECETOC‘s work on the identification and evaluation of endocrine disrupting chemicals has been recognised by the American Society of Toxicology (SOT) whose Risk Assessment Specialty Section (RASS) aw...

07.01.2013

ECETOC welcomes Sumitomo Chemical

ECETOC welcomes Sumitomo Chemical as its latest member company. Established in 1913, Sumitomo Chemical Group includes over 100 subsidiaries and affiliates, and operates businesses in five sectors “...

20.12.2012

DG Sanco SC’s discussion paper on “New challenges for risk assessment”

With input from scientists through ECETOC membership and from ECPA, ECETOC submitted comments in reply to the public consultation on this discussion paper. Overall the discussion paper is welcomed as...

20.12.2012

Season’s greetings and Happy New Year from ECETOC

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08.10.2012

Publications on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

ECETOC has compiled a package of publications related to endocrine disrupting chemicals which can be downloaded free of charge from: http://bit.ly/ecetoc--EDPack It comprises: Report commisioned...

06.09.2012

E-newsletter issue 23, Sep 2012

The September 2012 edition of the ECETOC e-newsletter has just been published and can be downloaded in PDF format from the following link: http://bit.ly/ecetoc-enl23 Items of particular note in this...

06.09.2012

Dr Alan Poole, previously of Dow Europe to succeed Dr Neil Carmichael as Secretary General of ECETOC

On 1st October 2012, Dr Alan Poole, previously of Dow Europe will succeed Dr Neil Carmichael as Secretary General of ECETOC. Neil Carmichael will retire from ECETOC at the end of September after 30 y...

05.09.2012

Please note our new address from 17th September 2012

Change of Address: New offices for ECETOC Secretariat The ECETOC Secretariat is on the move in mid-September. New offices are currently being fitted out on the same site, but in building 2 instead of...

29.08.2012

Open Access Article: Risk assessment of endocrine active chemicals: Identifying chemicals of regulatory concern

Bars R, Fegert I, Gross M, Lewis D, Weltje L, Weyers A, Wheeler JR, Galay-Burgos M. 2012. Risk assessment of endocrine active chemicals: Identifying chemicals of regulatory concern. Regulatory Toxicol...

14.08.2012

42nd EEMS annual conference in Warsaw, Poland 16-20 September 2012

The 42nd EEMS meeting will take place in Warsaw, Poland, 16-20 September 2012 at Warsaw University main campus, under the organization of Prof. Barbara Tudek, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics,...

06.08.2012

14th Cefic-LRI Annual Workshop 2012

The Long-range Research Initiative (LRI) Programme of the European Council for the Chemical Industry (Cefic) is organising its annual workshop to showcase results and outcomes of several LRI projects...

30.07.2012

New publication on Targeted Risk Assessment

TR 114 : ECETOC TRA version 3: Background and Rationale for the Improvements ECETOC has published Technical Report No. 114 which explores the background and rationale for the recently-launched versio...

27.07.2012

New report explores the effects of chemical co-exposures at doses relevant for human safety assessments

Technical Report No. 115: Effects of Chemical Co-exposures at Doses Relevant for Human Safety Assessments Chemical regulation is mainly based on single substances, but exposure is to complex mixture...

17.07.2012

ECETOC “young scientist‘ award at X2012

The ECETOC “young scientist‘ award at X2012 (7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment, organised by the British Occupational Hygene Society) was awarded to Katleen de Bro...

25.06.2012

Young Scientist Awards at SETAC and EUROTOX

Young Scientist Awards at SETAC and EUROTOX With the objective of recognising young scientists, ECETOC has been active in the provision of an annual Science Award to outstanding works of science sinc...

18.06.2012

New publication on Epigenetics and chemical safety

Epigenetics is a rapidly developing and expanding biological science which will change our perception of cell biology in a profound way. In order to increase our knowledge of how epigenetics could ha...

04.06.2012

02-05 July 2012 Edinburgh, UK. 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment

02-05 July 2012 Edinburgh, UK. 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment, organised by the British Occupational Hygene Society (www.x2012.org)...