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Review on microplastics in the environment

January 2016

In the recently published review, information on sources (with a specific focus on personal care products) and fate of microplastic particles in the aquatic and terrestrial environment, and on their uptake and effects, mainly in aquatic organisms, is evaluated.

Microplastics in the environment originate from a variety of sources. First estimates indicate that abrasion and fragmentation of larger plastic items and materials containing synthetic polymers are likely to be most relevant.

Project report published on ‘Development of a test protocol to study the transformation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides in liquid manure’

October 2015

For veterinary medicinal products manure application onto agriculturally used soils is their main path of entry into the environment. Consequently, this path is considered as part of the environment risk assessment. Biocides, which are used for stable disinfection, might also enter the environment via liquid manure. So far, only regulatory guidance (EMA/CVMP/ERA/ 430327/2009) addresses this […]

ECT at ECHA’s Topical Scientific Workshop on Soil Risk Assessment and at the ACSESS Annual Meeting

September 2015

European Chemicals Agency’s Topical Scientific Workshop on Soil Risk Assessment, 7-8 October 2015, Helsinki (Finland):

J. Römbke: Laboratory and higher-tier effect tests in soil ecotoxicology: state-of-the-art and new developments

ECT at SETAC GLB Annual Meeting, EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment, and Royal Entomological Society’s Annual Meeting

ECT at SETAC GLB Annual Meeting, EuCheMS Conference, and Royal Entomological Society’s Meeting

August 2015

Royal Entomological Society’s Annual National Science Meeting, 2-4 September 2015, Dublin (Ireland):

J. Römbke: The bait-lamina test – a newly standardised functional method in soil ecology

Successful renewal of ECT‘s certificate of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

June 2015

ECT’s GLP certificate, which comprises the categories 4 (Environmental toxicity studies on aquatic and terrestrial organisms) and 5 (Behaviour in water soil and air, bioaccumulation and metabolism), has been renewed in June 2015.

ECT at the SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting

May 2015

A. Boxall, R. Länge, A. Coors, J. Snape, F. Sanz: iPiE – Intelligence-led assessment of pharmaceuticals in the environment.

A. Coors, F. Sacher, P. Schwartz, C. Polleichtner, U. Kühnen, W. Drost, D. Gildemeister: Azoles from different regulatory frameworks: combined assessment with regard to wastewater effluents.

ECT is involved in the project ‘Intelligence-led Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment’ (iPiE)

May 2015

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) of medicines for human use can be released to the environment during the manufacturing process, following use by patients or when unused medicines are disposed of in an incorrect manner. As APIs are biologically active compounds, concerns have been raised about the potential effects of APIs in the environment on human […]

ECT organises a ring test with dung beetles

March 2015

European legislation requires testing of parasiticides using, among others, dung beetles (OECD GD 122). Currently, Aphodius constans, a dweller species, has been approved as a test species for residues in dung. However, results of tests using A. constans may not be relevant for tunneler species.

Two project reports published

August 2014

The final reports of two projects, ’Substances of very high concern under REACH – an evaluation of uncertainties in the environmental risk assessment of endocrine active substances‘ and ‘Review and enhancement of new risk assessment concepts under REACH‘ have been published.

Contributions of ECT at the SETAC EUROPE 24th annual meeting (Basel, Switzerland, 11 – 15 May 2014)

April 2014

Meet us at our booth or visit the following presentations:

Monday, May 12th, 2014:

Coors A., Sacher F., Juffernholz T., Drost W., Gildemeister D., Kühnen U.: Human pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals in wastewater effluents – first steps toward a combined risk assessment
Poster session: Waste and wastewater effluents: chemical and ecotoxicological characterization