Dear colleagues and friends,As we begin a new year, I would like to thank you for your continued engagement and trust in ECETOC. 2026 promises to be an exciting and dynamic year, and I am pleased...
Looking for an extra challenge? A next step to help develop your career? Consider applying for our Secondee Programme!ECETOC is looking for early-career scientists currently working at a member co...
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).
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....
Why?REACH restriction: SPM use restricted; emissions reporting required by May 2027.
Gap: No analytical methods available to measure SPM emissions.
Solution: Draft SPERC-based approac...
Why?Validation of NAMs is often overlooked despite its importance for regulatory use.
Traditional validation methods are less suitable for NAMs, which focus on key events rather than apical...
This workshop report summarises a workshop held in Brussels on 26th January 2016 by the ECETOC Human Exposure Data Task Force on the state of the art of consumer exposure assessment science as develop...
TR124: Addendum to TR114 : Technical Basis for the TRA v3.1
Newsflash:
In response to feedback received from users of the TRA, ECETOC has further improved the consumer portion of the model by the in...
TR 121 : Efficacy and safety of antidotes for acute poisoning by cyanides | 19 November 2013
SCIENCE NEWS FLASH: New ECETOC report offers guidance on
the efficacy and safety of antidotes for acute p...
This Task Force is active on a number of initiatives:A state of the science literature review on assessment of humans exposed indirectly via the environment, to ascertain the state of the s...
This Task Force was established to carry out an in-depth evaluation of the TRA Consumer tool.A manuscript entitled An assessment of the ECETOC TRA Consumer tool performance as a screening level tool w...
Introduction
ECETOC initiated its targeted risk assessment (TRA) activity in 2001 and the first public version (v1) of the TRA exposure model was made available in 2004. Since then the TRA tool has...
