Publication
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…
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…
wca papers on endocrine disruption
July 16, 2024 by Becky Brown
wca have contributed to two new papers on endocrine disruption published last week. The first “A Decision Logic for the Reliability Assessment and Interpretation of Vitellogenin Measurements”…
How important is it to update the existing environmental quality standard for nickel? An example based on the UK
July 8, 2024 by Adam Peters
Adam and Graham have recently published an evaluation of what the implications would be for the UK if the existing EQS for nickel, that was…
Environmental risk assessment of the use of zinc oxide medicated feeds for weaning piglets in the UK
April 5, 2024 by Adam Peters
Adam and Graham have recently published a study evaluating the potential environmental risks that may result from the use of zinc oxide based medicated feeds for weaning piglets.
Implementing approaches to account for metal bioavailability in freshwaters: Current status and future directions
July 4, 2023 by Graham Merrington
When Graham and Adam attended SETAC North America in Pittsburgh last year they organised a meeting to discuss the approaches to metal bioavailability implementation in different regions, states,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Using Water Framework Directive Watch List Data Sets to Estimate Europe‐wide Chemical Exposures and Potential Aquatic Risks: Representativity and Uncertainty?
July 19, 2021 by Graham Merrington
We at wca have been working over the last year and a half on the exposure data for some of the Watch List substances under the Water Framework Directive (WFD),…
Developing understanding of the fate and behaviour of silver in fresh waters and waste waters
December 14, 2020 by Adam Peters
Adam and Graham have been working with researchers from the Wilfred Laurier University and the University of Waterloo in Canada, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in…
Perspectives on Relevancy Assessment for Non Standard Ecotoxicity Data in Environment Quality Standard derivation: Examples for Diclofenac
October 15, 2020 by Graham Merrington
Graham, Adam and Dean have just published the paper “Perspectives on Relevancy Assessment for Non Standard Ecotoxicity Data in Environment Quality Standard derivation: Examples for Diclofenac” in Bulletin…
Demonstrating the Reliability of Bio‐Met for Determining Compliance with Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) for Metals in Europe
October 5, 2020 by Adam Peters
Adam and Graham have been working with colleagues in Arche Consulting, NiPERA, IZA and ECI to evaluate the reliability of the simplified metal bioavailability tool bio-met for copper, nickel, and…
From our blog
October 14, 2025 by Becky Brown