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- 28th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting (Rome; 13th - 17th May 2018)
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- The Tropical Environmental Risk Assessment of Nickel
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- wca support Movember
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- Blog Archive: 2010
- Are University Press Officers bringing science into disrepute and are they being aided and abetted by their academics?
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- The Regulation of Nanotechnologies under REACH
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- Future Directions for Biocides Regulation in the EU
- European Lubricants Industry Annual Congress
- Horizon Scanning – How to add value not additional cost
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- Assessing the biological effects of nanomaterials
- SUBSTITUTION – What?, Why? and How?
- Workshop on Alternatives to Animal Testing – September the 17th
- Water Sustainability and the Food Industry
- ECOVIGILANCE – An essential requirement for the maintenance of biodiversity.
- Environmental Quality Standards and Field Evidence
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- Ecopharmacostewardship – A pharmaceutical industry perspective
- UK Coalition Government & Animal Testing
- Socioeconomic assessment under REACH (again!)
- n-hexane linked to adverse health effects in China
- Mode of Action – A paradigm shift in the risk assessment of micropollutants?
- Converting Environmental Risk Assessment Outputs into Socioeconomic Impact Assessment Inputs under REACH
- Report from the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- Blog Archive: 2009
- Thresholds of Toxicological Concern for Endocrine Active Substances in the Aquatic Environment
- Bioavailability based standards for metals are practical and accessible tools for regulators and stakeholders
- Evidence that population level chemical impacts can sometimes be reversed
- How to identify an endocrine disrupting compound
- Announcing the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- wca further enhance their capability in contaminated land and waste recycling
- Derivation and Use of Environmental Quality and Human Health Standards for Chemical Substances in Water and Soil
- Beyond Regulation: Risk Pricing & Responsible Innovation
- UK develops nanotechnology strategy
- A Pragmatic Approach to the Precautionary Principle
- Computational approaches under REACH
- “Is Sustainable Development Sustainable” – An Economist Debate
- DEFRA Chemical Stakeholder Forum
- Towards Green Pharmacy
- How to assess the toxicity of mixtures
- Sustainable Development & Production of Human Pharmaceuticals
- Metals risk assessment at SETAC 2009
- wca at SETAC Goteborg 2009
- Programme for the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Pharmacy
- Blog Archive 2020
- An Irish Adventure
- Use of the Xenopus eleutheroembyronic thyroid assay (XETA) in endocrine assessments
- Plant Protection Products – gearing up for IUCLID
- UK REACH: Deadline for grandfathering fast approaching
- UK Only Representative (OR) services
- SETAC Europe 2021 Annual Meeting
- wca at SETAC 2021: Reliability of fish data for endocrine disruptor hazard assessment
- Importance of Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability in Hazard Assessment, Risk Assessment and Regulation of Metals in Multi-Stressor Environmental Conditions
- Pharmaceuticals in the Environment - a Global Challenge Session at SETAC Europe
- Employee Ownership Day
- Using Water Framework Directive Watch List Data Sets to Estimate Europe‐wide Chemical Exposures and Potential Aquatic Risks: Representativity and Uncertainty?
- SETAC North America: SciCon4
- The DUIN deadline has passed – what are my next steps?
- SETAC North America Special Session: Regulatory Update: Metals in the Environment
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