April 22, 2025 by Iain Wilson

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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 in Vienna. The meeting starts on 11th May and runs through until the 15th May. As always, we will be presenting our work in both platform and poster form, as well as co-chairing two platform sessions; a full breakdown of wca’s involvement is detailed below.

wca staff will also be available at our exhibition booth through-out the meeting (Booth 40) in the Exhibit Hall. We look forward to discussing our work and presentations with you there.

Sessions chaired:

3.14 – From Persistence to Mobility: Integrating Science with Policy and Bridging Gaps in Understanding Impact and Mobility. Adam Peters will be chairing the session with Michael Neumann and Marie Collard, with the session being held in the AM1 (09:30 –10:50 CEST) timeslot on Tuesday 13th May in Hall K2.

4.14 – Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Innovations in Risk Assessment, Regulation, and the Science Globally. Dean Leverett will be chairing the session with John Wilkinson, Todd Davidson and Gerd Maack, with the session being held in the AM1 (09:30 –10:50 CEST) timeslot on Tuesday 13th May in Hall K1.

Platform presentation:

4.14 – Assessing the Suitability of Recent EU Environmental Quality Standards that Account for the Ecotoxicity and Prevalence of Transformation Products. Lucy Kennelly, Graham Merrington, Dean Leverett, Rhiannon Smith and Sylwia Kosmala-Grzechnik. AM1 on Tuesday 13th May in Hall K1

Posters:

1.12.P-Tu139 – Weight of evidence endocrine disruptor assessments for hydrocarbon UVCBs. Becky Brown, Owen Green, Kate Roylance, Rhiannon Smith, Christopher Prosser, David Saunders, Sandrine Sourisseau, Sergio Villalobos, Kat Colvin, Neslihan Kocabas, George Hinkal, Nicholas Synhaeve, Delina Lyon and Leslie J Saunders; on Tuesday 13th May

1.12.P-Tu140 Endocrine Disruption Assessment of UVCBs (substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products or biological materials): A case study using grease thickeners. Rhiannon Smith, Becky Brown, Maria Blanco-Rubio, David Saunders, Olivia Tran, Lucy Kennelly, Kate Roylance and Owen Green; on Tuesday 13th May

3.14.P-Tu236 Is the Organic Carbon Normalised Partition Coefficient the most Appropriate Measure of Partitioning for Substances that are Highly Mobile in the Environment? Adam Peters; on Tuesday 13th May

3.14.P-Tu241 An Approach for Accounting for Structural Similarity in Reference Substance Selection for Highly Mobile Test Substances in OECD TG 121 and Similar Studies. Adam Peters, Sylwia Kosmala-Grzechnik, Iain Wilson and Graham Merrington; on Tuesday 13th May

3.14.P-Tu243 Development of a Screening Test for the Mobility of Polar and Ionisable Substances in the Environment. Michael Huben, Adam Peters, Benedikt Ringbeck, Dieter Hennecke, Richard Gibson, Steph Jones and Pippa Curtis-Jackson; on Tuesday 13th May

4.14.P-Tu372 Developments towards a marine Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) for Diclofenac. Dean Leverett, Lucy Kennelly, Thomas Austin, Richard Maunder, Daniel Hill, Cameron Hird and Pete Johnson; on Tuesday 13th May

4.14.P-Tu383 Using a Consistent Framework for Literature Reviews Improves Confidence in Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals. Sagar Thakali, Jennifer Saxe, Becky Brown, Dean Leverett, Sharon Swales and Irene Bramke; on Tuesday 13th May

4.14.P-Tu384 A Standard Approach for Literature Data Review Required Under Revised EU Pharmaceutical Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance. Olivia Tran, Becky Brown, Becky Marks, Lucy Kennelly, Rachel Moreby and Irene Bramke; on Tuesday 13th May

3.02.P-We187 Helping the Risk Assessor: Improvements to Tools for Environmental Risk Assessments of Metals. Iain Wilson, Graham Merrington, Adam Peters, Elizabeth Middleton, Chris Cooper, David Boyle, Stijn Baken, Jasim Chowdhury, Jelle Mertens, Paul Marsh, Kelly Croteau and Charlotte Nys; on Wednesday 14th May

1.13.P-Th028 – Why are Commercial Surfactants Difficult to Test? Examination of the Challenges associated with Chronic Aquatic Testing. Erin Maloney, Rhiannon Smith, Becky Brown, James Dawick, Lauren McAnally, Frank Seitz, Chiara Maria Vitale, Jens Bietz, Marc Geurts, Liesa-Kristin Beuter, Sabrina Wilhelm, Philipp Hopp; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th085 Where’s the Data? Updating the EU Physicochemical Freshwater Monitoring Database. Iain Wilson, Graham Merrington, Adam Peters, Elizabeth Middleton, Chris Cooper, David Boyle, Stijn Baken, Jelle Mertens, Paul Marsh and Kelly Croteau; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th086 Simplified and Now User-Friendly! Updating bio-met for Better Risk Assessment. Iain Wilson, Graham Merrington, Adam Peters, Elizabeth Middleton, Chris Cooper, David Boyle, Stijn Baken, Jasim Chowdhury and Charlotte Nys; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th088 Possibilities and Challenges in Setting Scientifically Defensible Discharge Limits for Aluminium in the UK. Adam Peters, Mark Craig, Jenni Hughes, Richard Smith, Fergus O’Brien, Peter Sugden, Ryan Oakley, Jay Bullen, Michael Brennan, Gillian Ide, John Bagnall, Joanna Wishart, Gavin Lincoln, Adam Smart, Simon Roe, Curtis Howell, Ben Bradford and Graham Merrington; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th090 Development of an Approach to Account for Bioavailability in the Assessment of Potential Risks of Uranium Exposures to Freshwater Ecosystems. Adam Peters, Lucy Kennelly, Iain Wilson, Graham Merrington, Dean Leverett, Stephen Lofts, Lars Olaf Hoglund, Magnus Sidborn, Pernilla Boqvist and Celia Jones; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th091 Initial Outcomes in the Development of a Bioavailability-Based Approach to Risk Assessment of Uranium in Freshwaters: Data collection and likely bioavailability relationships. Adam Peters, Lucy Kennelly, Iain Wilson, Graham Merrington, Dean Leverett, Stephen Lofts, Lars Olaf Hoglund, Magnus Sidborn, Pernilla Boqvist and Celia Jones; on Thursday 15th May

3.04.P-Th092 Delivering a New Framework for the Implementation of Bioavailability-Based Metal Guideline Values in Australia and New Zealand. Jennifer Stauber, Jenni Gadd, Aleicia Holland, Rick van Dam, Erin Smith, Adam Ryan, Elizabeth Middleton, Graham Merrington, Adam Peters and Iain Wilson; on Thursday 15th May

Meetings

Pharmaceuticals Interest Group Meeting; Hall D2 16:00 – 17:30 CEST on Tuesday 13th May

Metals Interest Group Meeting; Hall L1 16:00 – 18:00 CEST on Tuesday 13th May

We will also be providing blogs on our website and Linkedin page throughout the meeting.

We look forward to a great meeting, and hope to see you at SETAC Vienna.