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SETAC Pittsburgh 2022
November 14, 2022 by Iain Wilson
Adam and Graham are at the SETAC North America Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh this week! Both Adam and Graham are presenting and chairing sessions this…
wca at the Fresenius Endocrine Disruptors Conference
November 2, 2022 by Grace Panter
Next Wednesday (9th November), Grace Panter from wca will be presenting in Cologne, Germany, at the International Akademie Fresenius Conference on Endocrine Disruptors. On behalf of…
Sessions at SETAC Europe 2023
October 25, 2022 by Olivia Tran
wca invites abstracts for four sessions at SETAC Dublin The 33rd annual SETAC Europe conference will be taking place in Dublin, Ireland, from 30 April to 4…
Sources of Copper into the European Aquatic Environment
October 19, 2022 by Iain Wilson
Graham, Adam and I are co-authors of the paper Sources of Copper into the European Aquatic Environment, that has just been published in IEAM,…
SETAC Technical Workshop to develop Criteria for Reporting and Evaluation of Exposure Data (CREED)
August 24, 2022 by Graham Merrington
The outputs from this workshop continue to be developed and are now being tested (beta testing) by 93 experts from over 30 countries. This beta testing is being undertaken to…
Assessing the impact of wastewater treatment works effluent on downstream water quality
July 21, 2022 by Mike Gardner
Mike Gardner and three colleagues from the UKWIR Chemicals Investigation Programme (CIP) have recently published a paper – summarising river quality obtained by this nationwide monitoring programme over the last…
SETAC-Copenhagen 2022: Topical discussion on the European Commissions Chemical Strategy for Sustainability
May 30, 2022 by Adam Peters
I moderated a topical discussion at SETAC Copenhagen on the European Commissions Chemical Strategy for Sustainability and how it relates to metals with Steve Lofts (CEH), Chris Cooper (IZA), and…
SETAC-Copenhagen 2022: Investigating endocrine-disrupting properties of chemicals
May 24, 2022 by Grace Panter
Last week I attended the session on “Investigating endocrine-disrupting properties of chemicals: developments and challenges towards new approach methodologies (NAMs)”, at SETAC-Copenhagen. It was great to be at a conference, in…
wca at SETAC Europe 2022
May 16, 2022 by Iain Wilson
wca are long standing partners of SETAC Europe. As in previous years, we have a major presence at the 32nd Annual SETAC Europe Meeting to be held in Copenhagen.
New publication; An assessment of the EU-wide risk of Nickel to surface waters
May 9, 2022 by Graham Merrington
Adam, Iain, and Graham have recently published a Critical Perspectives article in ET&C with colleagues from NiPERA. The article examines the new approach produced by the European Commission to Deselect…
New paper published on the concentrations of contaminants in sewage effluents
April 14, 2022 by Mike Gardner
Mike Gardner and two colleagues from the UKWIR Chemicals Investigation Programme (CIP) have recently published a paper – summarising data obtained by this nationwide monitoring programme over the last ten…
Manuscript on the assessment of secondary poisoning by the pharmaceutical diclofenac
March 18, 2022 by Dean Leverett
A few weeks ago Adam and Graham had a manuscript on the assessment of secondary poisoning by the pharmaceutical diclofenac accepted for publication by the Journal Environmental Sciences Europe. The paper considers the…
Do you still hold a NONS notification?
February 16, 2022 by Rhiannon Smith
The Dangerous Substance Directive was the pre-cursor to REACH in the EU and notifications made under this Directive were known as NONS (‘Notification Of New Substances’). Currently, NONS notifications for…
Recent Publication on Implementing Bioavailability
February 10, 2022 by Adam Peters
A lack of monitoring data for Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) is often a limiting factor in implementing bioavailability-based Environmental Quality Standards for trace metals such as copper, nickel, and…
SETAC Technical Workshop; Criteria for Reporting and Evaluating Exposure Datasets (CREED)
January 31, 2022 by Graham Merrington
A SETAC Technical Workshop aimed at developing Criteria for Reporting and Evaluating Exposure Datasets (CREED) began, virtually, at the end of January. This follows on from the development…
Bioavailability Implementation Guidance
January 20, 2022 by Adam Peters
Iain, Graham, and Adam have been working on helping environmental regulators to implement bioavailability based Environmental Quality Standards for metals for some years. One of the key tools for doing…
UK REACH: First registration deadline to be extended and new model proposed
December 16, 2021 by Lucy Kennelly
Under UK REACH, all companies producing or importing substances into Great Britain at ≥ 1 tonne per annum must submit a registration to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
New paper published on the EQS derivation for Diclofenac
December 8, 2021 by Dean Leverett
Dean, Graham and Iain have just published: Environmental quality standards for diclofenac derived under the European Water Framework Directive: 1. Aquatic organisms in Environmental Sciences Europe. The paper focuses…
SETAC North America Special Session: Regulatory Update: Metals in the Environment
November 17, 2021 by Graham Merrington
Graham presented in a session at SETAC North America SciCon4 yesterday on Regulatory Update: Metals in the Environment. Christine Bergeron (USEPA) presented on the current activities in regard to…
The DUIN deadline has passed – what are my next steps?
November 15, 2021 by Sylwia Kosmala-Grzechnik
As the UK is no longer part of the EU, any company intending to import a substance into the UK, at or above 1 tonnes per annum (tpa), has to…