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ECETOC launches new initiatives related to pharmaceuticals and the environment
Since its establishment in 1978, ECETOC's membership has included pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies with significant consumer and personal care portfolios and food companies as well as chem...
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Workshop on Safety Assessment and Regulation of Nanomaterials is to be held as a post satellite meeting to EUROTOX 2009 in Dresden, Germany
The workshop is hosted by German Toxicology Society and ECETOC on April 22-24, 2010. Following introduction of nanomaterials in new technologies, regulators, developers and the producers are confronte...
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An addendum to ECETOC’s Targeted Risk Assessment Report No. 93 has been published
ECETOC Technical Report No. 107 is a targeted risk assessment supporting document and is now available to download here, under 'Supporting documents'....
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The report of ECETOC’s September 2009 workshop on the enhancement of the scientific process and transparency of observational epidemiology studies is available
This workshop took place 24-25 September in London, UK and discussed how the transparency in the design, conduct and report of observational epidemiology studies could be improved.
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Workshop looks at the enhancement of the scientific process and transparency of observational epidemiology studies
Environmental epidemiology studies are often treated with scepticism, even by the general public. In the past, scare stories based on findings from such studies, have turned out to be without foundati...
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ECETOC and the Next Generation of Scientists
At the 2008 Annual General Meeting, we announced that the 2009 ECETOC work programme would place a special emphasis on young scientists. With this in mind, this year's Annual Technical Meeting held 9-...
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ECETOC workshop brings together experts to debate proposed guidance on interpreting endocrine disrupting effects
This 29-30 June in Barcelona, Spain, ECETOC convened a workshop to discuss “Guidance on Interpreting Endocrine Disrupting Effects'. Fifty-five invited experts (from academia, regulatory bodies and i...
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ECETOC and EEMS jointly organised symposium on genotoxicity of engineered nanomaterials
ECETOC and EEMS (European Environmental Mutagen Society) repeated their successful collaboration this year to organise a symposium and forum on the first day of the 10th International Conference on En...
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SG Corner – November e-Newsletter 2009
Since I arrived at ECETOC, the development and implementation of ECETOC's "Science Strategy" has been the central theme of all we have undertaken. At the 2009 Annual General Meeting it was proposed th...
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Use of Human Data in DNEL / DMEL Derivation
In December 2007, ECETOC and TNO, with the support of the European Chemicals Bureau (ECB), held a workshop to discuss the role that available human data should play in DNEL development. The workshop w...
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The outcome of ECETOC’s June 2009 workshop on the interpretation of endocrine disrupting effects has been published
The report of the ECETOC workshop 'Guidance on interpreting endocrine disrupting effects' which took place 29-30 June 2009 (Workshop Report No. 16) was published in October 2009. The workshop was con...
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ECETOC Report New Designations
The main output of ECETOC's work programme is published in a range of reports that are peer-reviewed by its Scientific Committee comprising industry and academic experts. Below is a list of the differ...
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TRISK (European toxicology risk assessment training)
A new training programme on toxicology and risk assessment has been created with sponsorship of the Second Programme of Community Action in the Field of Health. It is co-ordinated by the University of...
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Launch of the new ECETOC targeted risk assessment tools
ECETOC's TRA task force was re-convened in 2006 with the aim of reviewing the current basis for the approach and making recommendations for further improvements. At the same time, the value of the TRA...
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SG Corner
This time last year the chemical industry was concerned about the imminent launch of the REACH process. The annual report for the year 2007, placed much emphasis on the forthcoming surge in activity r...
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Potency Values from the Local Lymph Node Assay: Application to Classification, Labelling and Risk Assessment
Building on previous ECETOC work, a new task force was started in mid 2007 with the remit to: determine whether an EC31 potency value derived from the LLNA2 can be used to provide a cut-off criterion...
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Nanomaterials and OECD Test Guidelines
This task force was set up to provide input to the OECD “Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials', in particular to the sub-groups that reviewed the OECD test guidelines concerning their suitabi...
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ECETOC‘s World health organisation NGO status
ECETOC is pleased to announce that its status as an officially recognised non-governmental organisation (NGO) with the World Health Organisation has been extended for another three years.
ECETOC coop...
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Triggering/waiving criteria for the extended one-generation reproduction toxicity study
As a follow-up to the task force and workshop on triggering/waiving criteria for the extended one-generation reproduction toxicity study, the task force has written a paper highlighting the conclusion...
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Scientific Committee News
The Scientific Committee is a central organ of ECETOC, meeting 6 times a year to peer-review and guide the work programme. ECETOC members have access online to detailed minutes of each meeting. It is...
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Next generation of ECETOC targeted risk assessment tools
The ECETOC targeted risk assessment (TRA) task force reported in 2004 (Technical Report 93), and launched the supporting web-based tool shortly after. Since 2004, almost 2000 users have registered wit...
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2009 Annual Technical Meeting to promote young scientists
The 2009 Annual Technical Meeting, 9-10 June in Brussels, offered young scientists peer-visibility and networking opportunities with an audience from industry, academia and regulators.
This 1½ day e...
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7th ECETOC Symposium at EEMS Annual Meeting looks at thresholds for genotoxins and their application in risk assessment
For the 7th occasion since 1998, ECETOC supported EEMS, the European Environmental Mutagen Society with the organisation of a symposium on 25 September, the last day of its 2008 annual general meeting...
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ECETOC Young Scientist Awards 2008
In 2008 ECETOC sponsored two awards for young scientists and is pleased to announce this year's winners:
For the environmental science related award, the ECETOC Young Scientist Award at the Society o...