Completed task forces
Recently Completed Task Forces
11.06.2014
Activity-Based Relationships for Aquatic Ecotoxicology Data: Use of the Activity Approach to Strengthen MoA Predictions
Environmental Sciences Manager: Malyka Galay Burgos
Administrative Assistant Sonia Pulinckx
Background
Two ECETOC Task Forces on the risk assessment of PBTs have produced recommendations to enable t...
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26.05.2015
Adapting Simple Treat for simulating behaviour of chemical substances
Background
In the EU the fate of chemicals in wastewater treatment is currently simulated with SimpleTreat 3.1. RIVM is currently revising SimpleTreat 3.1 for simulating municipal wastewater treatmen...
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26.05.2015
Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) focusing on endocrine active chemicals
Background
There are currently many intense global activities on adverse outcome pathways (AOP). Much of this activity is focused on endocrine disruption (ED). There is a risk that AOPs will be used t...
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28.10.2015
Approaches for read-across in chemical risk assessment
Outcome
Technical Report no.109: High information content technologies in support of read-across in chemical risk assessment (Published Decempber 2010).
Read-across exploits information on structura...
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28.10.2015
Aquatic toxicity and bioaccumulation of sparingly soluble manufactured particulate substances
Background
In 1996 ECETOC published Monograph No. 26 which reviewed the difficulties of sparingly soluble substances in aquatic toxicity assays. This work helped establish the current paradigm in aqu...
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12.06.2014
Assessment and evaluation of risks resulting from dermal exposure to chemicals
Completed task force: The task force published its findings in March 2013 as Technical Report no.119: Evaluation of systemic health effects following dermal exposure to chemicals
Health Sciences Manag...
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12.06.2014
Category approaches, read-across, (Q)SAR
Health Sciences Manager Christa Hennes
Administrative Assistant Christine Yannakas
The task force completed its work in 2012; the Technical Report No. 116 can be downloaded here.
Categorisation, rea...
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11.06.2014
Chemical risk assessment – ecosystem services
Background
Assessing the risks of chemicals to man and the environment is based on the concept of comparing exposure to chemicals with their respective hazardous properties. However, there are differ...
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12.06.2014
Development of interim guidance for the inclusion of non-extractable residues (NER) in the risk assessment of chemicals
Completed task force: The task force published its findings in June 2013 as Technical Report no.118; Development of interim guidance for the inclusion of non-extractable residues (NER) in the risk a...
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02.08.2018
DNEL Derivation Guidance
The ECETOC DNEL Derivation Guidance (2010) – which provides the technical underpinnings by which many/most of industry DNELs (derived no-effect levels) were developed in 2010 and post-2010 – are u...
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11.04.2017
Endocrine Disruption
In December 2016, in response to the ‘Outline of draft Guidance Document for the implementation of the hazard-based criteria to identify endocrine disruptors’, published by ECHA and EFSA in Decemb...
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28.10.2015
Environmental Exposure Assessment of Ionisable Organic Compounds
Technical Report no.123: Environmental Exposure Assessment of Ionisable Organic Compounds (Published December 2013)
Summary
This report seeks to improve the capability to estimate the bioavailability...
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26.05.2015
Exploring community-based environmental hazard assessments of mixtures based on MOA-based approaches
Background
There is an increasing awareness of the need to complement single substance assessments with the assessment of mixtures. Mode of action considerations have been proposed to derive environme...
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11.06.2014
Exploring novel ways of using SSD to establish PNECs for industrial chemicals
Environmental Sciences Manager Malyka Galay Burgos
Background
An ECETOC workshop on "Probabilistic Approaches for Marine Hazard Assessment" was held in Oslo, June 2008. The main outcomes are documen...
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07.03.2019
Exposure-based adaptations Task Force
Background
Within the REACH legal text there are 2 ways to adapt the standard testing requirements; column 2 of annexes VII to X, and Annex XI. Annex XI contains 3 potential options – testing not p...
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28.10.2015
Freshwater Ecotoxicity as an environmental impact category to guide the selection of chemical-based products
November 2016
Publication of Task Force findings as Technical Report no.127: Freshwater ecotoxicity as an impact category in life cycle assessment
In a Nutshell:
Freshwater is a vital component in...
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02.06.2017
Geospatial approaches to increasing the ecological relevance of chemical risk assessments
Aim
The overall aim of this task force is to review and inform on the use of geo-referenced data to increase the environmental relevance of chemical risk assessment. The task force aims are complem...
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11.06.2014
Grouping of nanomaterials
Background and Outcome
Nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled products have to be safe. It is imperative that they do not harm humans or the environment.
As more and more nanotechnology-enabled...
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02.05.2016
Guidance Document for the Extended One-Generation Reproduction Toxicity Study (OECD Test Guideline 443) (EOGRT)
Terms of Reference
Review the available literature on the sensitivity and specificity of including a second generation in reproductive toxicity testing.
Define, if possible, the triggers to inclu...
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28.10.2015
Guidance for assessing the impact of mixtures of chemicals in the aquatic environment
Outcome
The potential risk from combinations of chemicals in the environment has recently moved up the scientific, regulatory and political agenda as a result of the increasing concern about the pote...
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11.06.2014
Guidance for classification of reproductive toxicants under GHS
Health Sciences Manager Christa Hennes
Administrative Assistant Christine Yannakas
Background
The Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) has been introduced in...
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11.06.2014
Guidance for Effective Use of Human Exposure Data in Risk Assessment of Chemicals
Background
The structures and processes by which risks are assessed and managed should themselves be risk-informed. This requires that full and proper account needs to be taken of the human exposure...
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28.10.2015
Guidance on assessment factors to derive a DNEL
Outcome
In the REACH Technical Guidance Document, chapter R.8 ‘Characterisation of dose -response for human health’ proposes a tiered and systematic approach for the delineation of DNEL (and DMEL)...
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12.06.2014
Guidance on interpreting endocrine disrupting effects within the constraints of REACH and the revised 91/414 directive
The finding of this Task force were published as Technical Report No. 106 (published June 2009).
Background
REACH has indicated that substances (e.g. intermediates, raw materials and formulation inert...
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11.06.2014
Low-dose interactions
Health Sciences Manager Christa Hennes
Administrative Assistant Christine Yannakas
The task force published its findings in July 2012 as Technical Report No. 115; "Effects of Chemical Co-exposures a...
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11.06.2014
Mode of Action and Identification of Adverse vs. Non-adverse Effects
Task Force Manager Alan Poole
Administrative Assistant Christine Yannakas
Background
The scientifically sound discrimination between adverse and non-adverse effects has always been a key element in...
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11.06.2014
PBT criteria (Annex XIII of REACH)
Outcome: August 2014
The task force has published its findings as ECETOC Special Report 18: Information to be considered in a weight-of-evidence-based PBT/vPvB assessment of chemicals (Annex XIII of R...
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18.12.2018
Persistent chemicals and water resources protection
Background
Several initiatives end-2017 and 2018 on identification of substances of concern to drinking water resources.
ECETOC role in supporting the development of a science-based framework to a...
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12.06.2014
Poorly Soluble Particles / Lung Overload
Chemicals Programme Manager Henk Vrijhof
Administrative Assistant Sonia Pulinckx
Background
The majority of data on respiratory effects of inhaled poorly soluble particles (PSP) stems from rat inhal...
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11.06.2014
Potency in carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity classification
Potency in carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity classification
Classification should give guidance on the potential hazards of chemicals. Once the nature of the hazard is known, potency is the m...
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12.06.2014
Refined Approaches for Risk Assessment of PBT/vPvB Chemicals
Environmental Sciences Manager Malyka Galay Burgos
Administrative Assistant Sonia Pulinckx
The findings of the task force were published in October 2011 as ECETOC Technical Report No.112; "Refined A...
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28.10.2015
Risk assessment approaches for PBT/vPvB or POPs
Outcome
The Task Force resulted in the Technical Report no.112: Refined Approaches for Risk Assessment of PBT/vPvB Chemicals (Published October 2011)
Many national, or regional, regulations and regio...
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11.06.2014
Sufficiency of aquatic hazard information for environmental risk assessment
Background
Currently, there is no clear consensus concerning whether available information on the aquatic hazard of substances is sufficient for determining whether or not an environmental risk asses...
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11.06.2014
Thresholds in respiratory sensitisation
Task Force Manager Alan Poole
Administrative Assistant Christine Yannakas
Background
Respiratory sensitisation gains increasing importance in EU regulations as an endpoint driving restrictive measur...
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12.06.2014
Understanding the relationship between extraction technique and bioavailability
Completed task force: The task force published its findings in June 2013 as Technical Report no.117: Understanding the relationship between extraction technique and bioavailability
Environmental S...
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