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27.05.2021
ECETOC Task Force reviews scientific and legislative framework protecting Europe’s drinking water
Brussels, 27 May 2021 – An ECETOC Task Force has reviewed the current scientific and legislative framework, as well as the state of knowledge, used in protecting the sources of Europe’s drinking w...
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26.05.2021
ECETOC releases new and improved heatDB
A new version of ECETOC's heatDB is now available.
This latest release features a better overview of search results and a tier filtering system for better accuracy.
In addition to that, users can no...
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05.05.2021
ECETOC Task Force report recommends changes to REACH’s exposure-based testing strategies for chemicals
Brussels, 5 May 2021 - A task force set up by the Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) has recommended improvements to the Exposure Based Adaptation (EBA) procedure in EU chemical legislatio...
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03.05.2021
ECETOC presents at SETAC Europe 2021 Conference
Two ECETOC Task Forces (TF) will share results of their recent activities at the SETAC Europe 31st Annual Conference.
On Monday 3 May at 16:20 CET, representatives from the Assessing the human heal...
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10.03.2021
New ECETOC guidance says there isn’t any scientific justification for using chemical doses that cause pain or suffering in animal testing
Brussels, 10 March 2021 – In 21st century toxicology practice, there isn’t any scientific justification for selecting high doses of chemicals in animal tests which could result in lethality, pain,...
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24.02.2021
ECETOC report reviews information used to determine chemical exposure levels that are safe for human health
Brussels, 24 February 2021 – An ECETOC technical report has reviewed the existing information used to determine a substance’s ‘derived no-effect level’ (DNEL), defined as the exposure level be...
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17.02.2021
ECETOC workshop recommends improving REACH legal text to enable more use of exposure-based adaptations when registering chemicals
Brussels, 16 February 2021 – A workshop organised by the Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) has recommended improving the EU’s REACH legislation legal text to enable more chemicals to...
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09.02.2021
ECETOC T4 Task Force publishes first of four reports developing tiered testing strategy for thyroid disruption
Brussels, 09 February 2020 – An article by the Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) Special Thyroxine (T4) Task Force has recently been published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Criti...
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16.12.2020
Nanotoxicology journal publishes details of new ECETOC NanoApp
Details of the newly-launched NanoApp have been published in the journal Nanotoxicology.
The paper, ‘Rationale and decision rules behind the ECETOC NanoApp to support registration of sets of simil...
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30.11.2020
ECETOC launches new NanoApp, combined with training for users
The Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) will formally launch its keenly-awaited new NanoApp on 30 November this year.
The web-based tool has been designed to help industry register nanom...
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23.11.2020
Dutch Society for Toxicology’s TCDD magazine features ECETOC new Conceptual Framework for Polymer Safety Assessment
TCDD (Toxicological Communication, Data en Documentation), the Dutch Society for Toxicology's quarterly magazine has recently published a feature on ECETOC’s new Conceptual Framework for Polymer Ris...
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17.07.2020
EPAA and NC3Rs final call for data: acute oral toxicity studies
ECETOC is supporting this call for data for acute oral toxicity studies. In collaboration with the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA), the National Centre for the...
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12.05.2020
ECETOC Task Force explores strategies for assessing effects of chemical mixtures on aquatic communities
A study by ECETOC has explored the challenge of assessing the effects of mixtures of chemicals on aquatic communities comprising many species.
Chemical safety assessment generally studies the effects...
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04.05.2020
Hazard identification, classification, and risk assessment of carcinogens: too much or too little? – Report of an ECETOC workshop
An international workshop organised by the Centre for chemical safety assessment (ECETOC) was held in September 2019 in Helsinki to explore the scientific limitations of the current ‘binary’ carci...
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30.04.2020
ECETOC gathers together gut microbiome experts to pool their knowledge and identify areas for new research
ECETOC gathered together a high-powered group of gut microbiome specialists in an expert meeting to assess progress in research, pool existing knowledge into a white paper and identify gaps for furthe...
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28.04.2020
ECETOC helps improve and expand read-across techniques for chemical safety assessments
The concept of ‘read-across’ in chemical safety assessments took a large step forward at a workshop organised by the Centre for chemical safety assessment, ECETOC.
Read-across is a technique for...
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09.04.2020
‘Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’ publishes ECETOC-commissioned study into microplastics ingestion
An article commissioned by ECETOC’s Microplastics Scientific Platform, ‘Towards improved understanding of the ingestion and trophic transfer of microplastic particles – Critical review and impli...
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07.04.2020
New data and tools added to ECETOC’s Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database
ECETOC’s Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB), has been enhanced with new data and tools as part of its annual update.
The latest update covers the period from June 2018, where the p...
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03.04.2020
ECETOC study investigates the extrapolation of aquatic environmental safety assessment data to soils and sediments
A study by ECETOC has investigated the extrapolation of data from ecotoxicity tests carried out in water to assess toxicity in soils and sediments, using the Equilibrium Partitioning Methodology (EPM)...
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24.03.2020
Second report of ECETOC trilogy on polymer safety assessment looks at analytical tools, methods and models
ECETOC has today published the second part of its trilogy on polymer safety assessment.
Polymers cover a broad spectrum of generally very large molecules, including cellulose, waxes, and resins. They...
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