New ECETOC expert report: Advancing OECD TG 309 biodegradation testing
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New ECETOC expert report: Advancing OECD TG 309 biodegradation testing

A new expert meeting report is now available on the ECETOC website exploring how OECD TG 309 can be made more robust and environmentally relevant for chemical persistence assessment. The report ref...
We’re Hiring: Join the ECETOC Team as a Trainee!
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We’re Hiring: Join the ECETOC Team as a Trainee!

Are you passionate about science, regulatory toxicology, and making a real-world impact at the intersection of industry, academia, and policy? ECETOC is excited to announce that we’re looking for a...
HSSD Tool

HSSD Tool

This software was developed by a consortium of partners to facilitate the uptake of novel approaches to estimate aquatic threshold concentrations (e.g. the concentration at which 5% of the species are exposed above their EC50, HC5).
The Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB)

The Human Exposure Assessment Tools Database (heatDB)

heatdb is a public directory of exposure data sources as well as available tools for exposure
NanoApp

NanoApp

ECETOC’s NanoApp is a tool designed to define the boundaries of sets of similar nanoforms and to generate a justification for the REACH registration.
Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

The Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) estimates exposures to workers, consumers and the environment that arise during a series of events.
TRA Task Force – Worker branch

TRA Task Force – Worker branch

Why? The Worker TRA Task Force has been active since 2019, delivering projects that advance the scientific basis of the Worker Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) tool. Its overarching objective is to e...
Immunotoxicity assessment: Addressing Challenges and Advancing Methodologies [Workshop → Task Force]​

Immunotoxicity assessment: Addressing Challenges and Advancing Methodologies [Workshop → Task Force]​

Why? Regulatory assessment of immunotoxic properties of chemicals is a complex and challenging task​ Limited regulatory guidance exists​ Lack of industry and regulatory knowledge​...
Chronic fish case studies towards an IATA

Chronic fish case studies towards an IATA

Why? Hazard and safety assessments for the pelagic compartment often rely on in vivo studies using a single fish species, raising ethical concerns and uncertainty in terms of extrapolation....
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Publications

Monograph

Monograph 031 – Guidance on Evaluation of Reproductive Toxicity Data

Mono 031 : Guidance on Evaluation of Reproductive Toxicity Data | February 2002 The reproductive process is complex and there are many stages that are vulnerable to external influences; such influe...
Article

Recognition of adverse and nonadverse effects in toxicity studies

One of the most important quantitative outputs from toxicity studies is identification of the highest exposure level (dose or concentration) that does not cause treatment related effects that could be...
Technical Report

TR 082 – Risk Assessment in Marine Environments

TR 082 : Risk Assessment in Marine Environments | December 2001 Within Europe, risk assessments for new and existing substances for the freshwater aquatic environment are based on the standardised pr...
Technical Report

TR 081 – Human Acute Intoxication from Monochloroacetic Acid: Proposals for Therapy

TR 081 : Human Acute Intoxication from Monochloroacetic Acid: Proposals for Therapy | November 2001 The industrial chemical monochloroacetic acid (MCAA) is used mainly in carboxylation reactions. It...
Monograph

Monograph 030 – Genetic Susceptibility to Environmental Toxicants

Mono 030 : Genetic Susceptibility to Environmental Toxicants | October 2001...
Annual Report
Technical Report

TR 080 – Aquatic Toxicity of Mixtures

TR 080 : Aquatic Toxicity of Mixtures | July 2001 The inherent toxicity of a substance to aquatic organisms is typically determined via single species laboratory tests. Results from these tests are u...
Technical Report

TR 079 – Exposure Factors Sourcebook for European Populations (with Focus on UK Data)

TR 079 : Exposure Factors Sourcebook for European Populations (with Focus on UK Data) | June 2001 Risk assessment includes elements of exposure, hazard, and dose-response. The exposure component is c...
Document

DOC 042 – Genomics, Transcript Profiling, Proteomics and Metabonomics (GTPM) An Introduction

DOC 042 : Genomics, transcript profiling (transcriptomics), proteomics and metabonomics (GTMP). An introduction | April 2001 Genomics, transcript profiling (transcriptomics), proteomics and metabon...
JACC

JACC Report 40 – Peracetic Acid and its Equilibrium Solutions

JACC 040 : Peracetic Acid (CAS No. 79-21-0) and its Equilibrium Solutions | January 2001 This report has been produced as part of the Joint Assessment of Commodity Chemicals (JACC) programme. It pr...
Article

Scientific analysis of the proposed uses of T25 dose descriptor in chemical carcinogen regulation. An ECETOC Workshop Overview.

The uncertainties that surround the methods used for risk assessment of exposure to carcinogens have been highlighted by a recent document advocating an approach based on the T25 dose (the dose giving...
Article

Skin sensitisation: New perspectives and recommendations

Various methodological aspects of skin sensitisation testing have been explored, particularly in the context of animal welfare considerations and reliability and sensitivity of test methods. Recommend...
Article

Skin sensitisation testing in potency and risk assessment

The purpose of this article is to review, and make recommendations for, the use of relevant skin sensitization test methods, for the purposes of determination of relative potency and the threshold dos...
Article

Monitoring, modelling and environmental exposure assessment of industrial chemicals in the aquatic environment

Monitoring and laboratory data play integral roles alongside fate and exposure models in comprehensive risk assessments. The principle in the European Union Technical Guidance Documents for risk asses...
Article

Ecological risk assessment of endocrine disrupters

The European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals proposes a tiered approach for the ecological risk assessment of endocrine disruptors, integrating exposure and hazard (effects) chara...
Document

DOC 041 – Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Response to UNEP/INC/CEG-I Annex 1

DOC 041 : Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Response to UNEP/INC/CEG-I Annex 1 | January 2000 An ECETOC Task Force started to work on the definition of scientific criteria for POP identification...
Document

DOC 040 – Comments on Recommendation from Scientific Commitee on Occupational Exposure Limits for 1,3-Butadiene

DOC 040 : Comment on Recommendation from Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits for 1,3-Butadiene | October 2000 The present document reviews the Recommendation on Occupational Exposu...
Annual Report
Monograph

Monograph 029 – Skin Sensitisation Testing for the Purpose of Hazard Indentification and Risk Assessment

Mono 029 : Skin Sensitisation Testing for the Purpose of Hazard Indentification and Risk Assessment | September 2000 The first step in any toxicological evaluation is the accurate identification of...
Article

Removal of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate from a small Yorkshire stream: Contribution to GREAT-ER project # 7

An in-stream removal experiment has been carried out in Red Beck, a small stream which receives effluent from Shibden Head Sewage Treatment Works. This trickling filter works serves a purely domestic...
Monograph

Monograph 028 – Threshold-Mediated Mutagens — Mutation Research Special Issue

Mono 028 : Threshold-Mediated Mutagens -- Mutation Research Special Issue| January 2000 The symposium on 'dose response and threshold effects in mutagenesis' co-sponsored by the European Environmen...
Technical Report

TR 078 – Skin Sensitisation Testing: Methodological Considerations

TR 078 : Skin Sensitisation Testing: Methodological Considerations | December 1999 Skin sensitisation testing was considered last by ECETOC in Monograph No.14 (1990). Since then a revised OECD guidel...

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