SETAC Vienna; Day 1
May 12, 2025 by Ed Stutt
wca staff are enjoying the start of SETAC Europe 2025 in Vienna, despite some of us having one or two travel issues getting here and our posters ending up on…
Website updates ahead of SETAC Vienna
May 9, 2025 by Becky Brown
As we look forward to some high quality science at SETAC in Vienna we have been reflecting on our own scientific outputs over the last few years, and consider that…
New UK REACH Fees Effective from 1 April 2025
May 6, 2025 by Sylwia Kosmala-Grzechnik
The UK government made significant changes to the fees under the UK REACH regulation, which came into force on 1 April 2025. These changes are outlined in the recently published…
wca at SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting
April 22, 2025 by Iain Wilson
wca are long standing partners of SETAC Europe. As in previous years, we have a major presence at the 35th Annual SETAC Europe Meeting to be held…
Svemin EnviroSummit 2025
April 15, 2025 by Graham Merrington
Graham was invited by Svemin, The Swedish Association for Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers, to present an update on recent work on the…
Bioavailability and risk assessment of metals in freshwaters: is global regulatory implementation keeping pace with scientific developments?
February 26, 2025 by Graham Merrington
Graham, Adam and Iain have worked with colleagues across the world to develop a ‘road map’ for the regulatory implementation of metal bioavailability detailed in a recent…
Brief Communication on the current situation with the acute and chronic EQS for nickel
January 29, 2025 by Iain Wilson
With colleagues at NiPERA, Iain, Adam and Graham have published a Brief Communication on the current situation with the short and…
Clarification on timelines for the new CLP hazard classes
December 19, 2024 by Rhiannon Smith
New hazard criteria were introduced under the Classification Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation in April 2023 for Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) / very Persistent, very Bioaccumulative (vPvB), Persistent,…
Strategies to meet new CLP requirements for classification for Endocrine Disruption
November 22, 2024 by Becky Brown
New hazard classes have been introduced under Classification and Labelling (CLP) regulations to cover endocrine disruption (ED), Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) and Persistence, Mobility and Toxicity (PMT) and, last…
Approaches to meet the new Pharmaceutical Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance
November 20, 2024 by Becky Brown
New guidance for the European Medicine Agencies (EMA) pharmaceutical environmental risk assessment (ERA) were published in February 2024, effective from September 2024. The new ERA guidance leads…
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