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18.12.2014

Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

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10.12.2014

Report on the RSC Low Doses Endocrine Disrupter Effects Workshop

Royal Society of Chemistry Expert Panel on Endocrine Disrupter Low Dose Effects RSC London 4th June 2014 This RSC Workshop took place on June 4th 2014 and the report can be downloaded from http://b...

10.12.2014

Royal Society of Chemistry Expert Panel on Endocrine Disrupter Low Dose Effects RSC London 4th June 2014

This RSC Workshop took place on June 4th 2014 and the report can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/rsc-low-dose-effects . The workshop was a follow-up to a previous workshop “ECETOC Expert Panel to B...

03.12.2014

ECETOC workshop addresses aquatic toxicity using species sensitivity distribution

Brussels, December 2014 Predicting the toxicity of chemicals to aquatic communities is an integral element in environmental risk assessment. It is therefore a major component in environmental protect...

02.12.2014

Workshop on the improvement of the OECD 306 screening test at the CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science ) laboratories, Lowestoft, UK on the 17th and 18th February 2015

Recent ECETOC workshops recommended a series of modifications and enhancements to existing OECD biodegradation screening tests to deliver more robust methods for assessing persistence . This reflects...

03.11.2014

13 new or revised documents of the MAK value documentation series are now available in Open Access on the publisher´s website

The MAK Collection for Occupational Health and Safety. 13 new or revised documents of the MAK value documentation series are now available in Open Access on the publisher´s website: http://online...

03.11.2014

The MAK Collection for Occupational Health and Safety.

13 new or revised documents of the MAK value documentation series are now available in Open Access on the publisher´s website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/3527600418/homepage/Whats...

03.11.2014

Eurotox 2014: ECETOC Christa Hennes Young Scientist Award

7-10 September 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland In 2014, the award has been renamed in memory of Dr Christa Hennes who sadly passed away in December 2013 and who was instrumental in organising this award. T...

13.10.2014

ECHA REACH 2018 web pages unveiled

ECHA urges all companies to start preparing now for the REACH registration deadline of 31 May 2018. To support this, ECHA has published new web pages with improved access to relevant information. This...

08.10.2014

ILSI Europe Workshop on ‘Hazard vs. Risk Based Approaches in Food Safety Assessment. 2 December 2014, Brussels, Belgium

ILSI Europe cordially invites you to a workshop on ‘Hazard vs. Risk Based Approaches in Food Safety Assessment’. The use of hazard- and risk-based approaches in the safety assessment of foods tri...

06.10.2014

14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2015) will take place 3-5.Sep.2015 in Rhodes, Greece

We would like to draw your attention to the announcement of 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST 2015) which will take place on 3-5 September 2015 in Rhodes, Gre...

06.10.2014

Announcement for the submission of abstracts for two SETAC Sessions related to ECHA’s activities

Dear Colleague The preparation for the SETAC 25^th Annual meeting to be held in Barcelona (3-7 May 2015) is on its way. Two attached sessions which have been accepted by the Scientific Comm...

01.10.2014

OECD launches its knowledge base on Adverse Outcome Pathways

25/9/2014 – The OECD endeavours to make better use of increased knowledge of how chemicals induce adverse effects in humans and wildlife, through the so-called Adverse Outcome Pathways. It is based...

24.09.2014

NC3Rs publishes August 2014 e-newsletter

National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) has published its August 2014 e-newsletter - available via the following link: http://bit.ly/NC3Rs-newslette...

24.09.2014

SETAC Special Symposium on “Bioavailability of Organic Chemicals; Linking Science to Risk Assessment and Regulation

Regulation Dear colleague, It is my pleasure to announce to you our SETAC Special Symposium "BIOAVAILABILITY OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS: LINKING SCIENCE TO RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATION”, to be held in...

24.09.2014

List of MAK and BAT Values 2014: Maximum Concentrations and Biological Tolerance Values at the Workplace

The "List of MAK and BAT Values 2014" is now available in Open Access on the publisher´s website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527682027 All chapters and also the entire book are...

28.08.2014

In a nutshell: ECETOC publication evaluates existing concepts for the grouping and safety assessment of nanomaterials

ECETOC publication evaluates existing concepts for the grouping and safety assessment of nanomaterials Brussels, August 2014 It is well-accepted that nanomaterials need to be safe. However, conducti...

26.08.2014

Incorporating potency into classification for carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity

Classification should give guidance on the potential hazards of chemicals. Once the nature of the hazard is known, potency is the most important indicator of the degree of the hazard. Classification...

01.08.2014

ECETOC publishes report on new information and weight-of-evidence in PBT/vPvB assessment of chemicals

Brussels, 1^st August 2014 An ECETOC task force has reviewed the new information and ‘weight-of-evidence’ approach set out in Annex XIII of REACh as amended in 2011, to better assess wh...

02.07.2014

ECETOC e-newsletter issue 26, Summer 2014

The Summer 2014 issue of the ECETOC e-newsletter is now available and can be downloaded in PDF format from the following link: http://bit.ly/ecetoc-enl26 In this issue: • Annual Technical Meeti...