Assuring the Quality of monitoring data generated in CIP Phase 4
The Chemical Investigations Programme (CIP) is the UK water industry’s response to current and emerging legislation on trace substances in the water environment. It is used as a means of gaining a...
View ArticlePractical estimation and use of natural background concentrations in surface...
Iain, Adam and Graham, along with colleagues from NiPERA, have recently published a paper detailing a scheme for accounting for natural (or ambient) background concentrations within a tiered risk...
View ArticleInsights from the “Chemical Reactions: UK Chemicals Conference”
I recently had the opportunity to attend the “Chemical Reactions: UK Chemicals Conference“, organized by Chemicals Industries Association (CIA), Steptoe and Ramboll in Manchester. The event provided...
View ArticleCapacity building workshop to support environmental ED assessment under UK...
In October, Grace Panter and Becky Brown participated in a “Capacity building workshop to support environmental endocrine disrupter assessment under UK chemicals regulation” co-organised by the...
View ArticleDevelopment of guidance for monitoring frequency of chemical substances under...
Recently, I attended a two-day workshop in Zurich to take part in the development of new guidance on monitoring frequency for chemical substances under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The workshop...
View ArticleApproaches to meet the new Pharmaceutical Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance
New guidance for the European Medicine Agencies (EMA) pharmaceutical environmental risk assessment (ERA) were published in February 2024, effective from September 2024. The new ERA guidance leads to...
View ArticleStrategies to meet new CLP requirements for classification for Endocrine...
New hazard classes have been introduced under Classification and Labelling (CLP) regulations to cover endocrine disruption (ED), Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) and Persistence,...
View ArticleClarification on timelines for the new CLP hazard classes
New hazard criteria were introduced under the Classification Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation in April 2023 for Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) / very Persistent, very...
View ArticleBrief Communication on the current situation with the acute and chronic EQS...
With colleagues at NiPERA, Iain, Adam and Graham have published a Brief Communication on the current situation with the short and long-term Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) (called the Maximum...
View ArticleBioavailability and risk assessment of metals in freshwaters: is global...
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 publication in Integrated...
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