ECETOC Task Force provides new insights

Toxicity testing of microparticles and poorly soluble liquids in the water environment

15-Jan-2019 - A Task Force set up by the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) has provided new insights into scientific testing for the impact of undissolved particles in the aquatic environment. ECETOC launched the Task Force in response to increasing concerns among the ...

ECETOC Task Force reports on thresholds in chemical respiratory sensitisation

21-May-2015 - A variety of chemicals are known to cause allergic sensitisation of the respiratory tract associated with allergic rhinitis and asthma. It is generally accepted that the development of sensitisation of the respiratory tract to chemicals is a threshold phenomenon. That is, a certain minimum level ...

New ECETOC report offers guidance for the inclusion of non-extractable residues

03-Jun-2013 - There is general agreement that the formation of non-extractable residues (NER) in soil or sediment can have a significant impact on a chemical’s behaviour in the environment and it is therefore important that they should form an integral part of the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of ...

ECETOC publishes Joint Assessment of Commodity Chemicals (JACC) Report No. 55 on Linear Polydimethylsiloxanes CAS No. 63148-62-9 (Second Edition)

23-Jan-2012 - The findings of an ECETOC task force on Linear Polydimethylsiloxanes have been published as ECETOC JACC Report No. 55. This report presents a critical evaluation of the toxicity, physico-chemical properties, and environmental fate and effects of linear polydimethylsiloxanes (PDMSs), a type of ...

Dr. Neil Carmichael to succeed Dr. Michael Gribble as Secretary General of ECETOC

17-Oct-2006 - As of 1 November 2006, Dr. Neil G. Carmichael, previous Head of Toxicology at Bayer CropScience will succeed Dr. Michael Gribble as Secretary General of ECETOC (The European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals). Dr. Carmichael obtained a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of ...