2025 Annual Report
Annual Report
January 2026 news from the Sec Gen
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January 2026 news from the Sec Gen

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...
ECETOC launches Secondee Programme
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ECETOC launches Secondee Programme

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...
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.
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....
Estimating the environmental release of Synthetic Polymeric Microparticles from Products

Estimating the environmental release of Synthetic Polymeric Microparticles from Products

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...
Case Studies on Reliability and Relevance Considerations during Validation of NAMs

Case Studies on Reliability and Relevance Considerations during Validation of NAMs

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...
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Events

Workshop on the best use of generic in vitro – in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) models

This event is by invitation only. Date: 9 - 10 November 2021 Location: Brussels and online...

Assessing the safety of polymers: Examples of grouping approach

Polymers are currently being reconsidered in the context of regulatory programmes. To help with this process, an ECETOC Task Force has looked at existing approaches with the aim of developing a framew...

ECETOC 2021 Review Meeting

Date: Wednesday 14th April 2021, 14.00 – 17.00 CEST Location: Webinar During this event - for ECETOC delegates and selected invitees -  representatives from industry, academia and re...

NanoApp Users Training Webinar

Date: Thursday 14  January 2021, 15:30 – 18:00 CET Location: Webinar Join this webinar to discover ECETOC's NanoApp. This brand-new tool supports the creation and justification of sets of similar n...

NanoApp Users Training Webinar 2020 – 12 -10

Date: Thursday 10  December 2020, 10.00 – 12.30 CET Location: Webinar Join this webinar to discover ECETOC's NanoApp. This brand-new tool supports the creation and justification of sets of simila...

Recent work of ECETOC Task Force: Moving persistence (P) assessments into the 21st Century

Date: Tuesday, 29th September 2020, 13.00 – 15.00 CEST Location: Webinar Persistence is an important element of chemical management and regulations to protect health and the environment....

Human Health and Exposure Sciences Scoping Meeting 2020

Meeting report prepared by Ursula G. Sauer (Scientific Consultancy - Animal Welfare (Germany) with input from Alice Brousse and Andrea Cuciureanu, ECETOC (Belgium)

Environmental Sciences Scoping Meeting 2020

Meeting report prepared by Ursula G. Sauer, Scientific Consultancy - Animal Welfare (Germany); with input from Lucy Wimot, ECETOC (Belgium)

Carcinogenicity hazard ID Eurotox 2019 Satellite Workshop

This ECETOC-sponsored workshop is organized around two themes, each of which will have speakers representing different views followed by a panel discussion, with a focus on the path forward:  Them...

2018 AGM and ECETOC 40th Anniversary celebration

Newsflash 03 July 2018: Publication of e-Newsletter reporting on the ECETOC 40th Anniversary Background A champion of science for 40 years ECETOC is celebrating 40 years as a champion of scientifi...

2018 Human Health Review Meeting

This meeting is an opportunity for Member Company scientists along with representatives from academia and regulatory bodies to propose ideas and to provide input directly into ECETOC and Cefic LRI hum...

2018 Environment Review Meeting

This annual review is an opportunity for Member Company scientists along with representatives from academia and regulatory bodies to propose ideas and to provide input directly into ECETOC and Cefic L...

ECETOC Expert Meeting on Advancing the Science of Bioaccumulation Assessment

29 January 2018 (10:00 – 16:00 CET) ECETOC - Avenue E. Van Nieuwenhuyse 2 - 3° floor - 1160 Brussels Objectives: • Review together ongoing initiatives, research projects and regulatory activitie...

When Omics Meet Regulations

ECETOC Workshop Session at EUROTOX 2017, 11 September 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia. Programme of the Session Towards Establishing Criteria in a GLP Like Context for Collecting, Storing and Reti...

Workshop on Advances in Exposure Modelling: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Application

Including a hands-on Modelling Tools Fair 4 – 5 May 2017 Pullman Brussels Centre Midi, Brussels, Belgium A 2-day workshop, organised by ECETOC to address how to incorporate research aimed at under...

Workshop Session: Data Standardization Across ’Omic Platforms in Regulatory Toxicology

ECETOC Workshop Session at 56th Annual SOT Meeting and ToxExpo, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 15 March 2017. Chairperson(s): Weida Tong, US FDA/NCTR, Jefferson, AR; and Timothy W. Gant, Centre for Radiati...

2017 Annual General Meeting and Annual Technical Meeting

08 March 2017, Sofitel  Brussels Europe Annual General Meetings represent the best opportunity for members to learn more about how ECETOC is helping them and to contribute their feedback.  Eve...

2017 Environment Review Meeting

This 2 day annual meeting has 2 objectives: Day 1 sets out to inform ECETOC member company scientists about the progress in current and recently completed ECETOC Task Forces, Workshops and Cefic Lo...

Developing a strategy to improve the hazard and risk assessment of difficult to test multi-component substances

Joint ECETOC - RIFM Workshop: 02-04 November 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA, preceding the SETAC World Congress Background International regulatory schemes (specifically REACH, Environment Canada’s DS...

ECETOC Workshop on Chemical Respiratory Allergy: Clinical Information and how to use it and improve it

27-28 October 2016, NH Nacional Hotel, Madrid, Spain Aims of the Workshop Specific Objectives: Develop best practice guidance on how to assess and use available human data for the identificatio...

ECETOC Workshop on Applying ‘Omics Technologies in Chemicals Risk Assessment

10-12 October, 2016 NH Eurobuilding Hotel Madrid, Spain Objectives With representatives from European Commission; the OECD; US-EPA; US-FDA - share and update frameworks developed by ECETOC mul...

Improving chemicals risk assessment with refined exposure characterisation

Workshop at EUROTOX 2016, 05 September 2016, Seville, Spain Chairs: Jim Bridges, University of Surrey, UK, and Helmut Greim, LRZ, Germany W02-1 Improving chemical risk assessment through tiered...

2016 Annual General Meeting and Annual Technical Meeting

Annual General Meetings represent the best opportunity for members to learn more about how ECETOC is helping them and to contribute their feedback. Every member company delegate is invited for this ty...

Noncoding RNAs and Risk Assessment Science

03-04 March 2016, Malaga, Spain Background Noncoding RNAs are now known to be involved in post transcriptional gene silencing, epigenetic regulation and mediation of physical and chemical enviro...