The need for a consistent approach to account for transformation products in...
Lucy is the lead author on a brief communication recently published in IEAM by wca discussing the need for a consistent approach to account for transformation products when deriving environmental...
View ArticleDifficult to Test Substances Sessions at SETAC Europe and North America
At the recent SETAC Europe conference in Maastricht, we had many good discussions on difficult to test substances, including UVCBs and this was reflected in the interest shown in a possible difficult...
View ArticleThe Fathead minnow Extended One Generation Reproduction Test (FEOGRT): A...
Be the first to read our latest publication. Grace Panter and Becky Brown, with colleagues from AstraZeneca, Experimental Pathology Laboratories Inc., Smithers Wareham and Corteva AgriScience have just...
View ArticlePrize-winning poster at the Chemistry in the Oil Industry (CITOI) symposium
Last week, I presented a poster at the Chemistry in the Oil Industry ‘Shaping the Future of Energy’ symposium on 21-22 April, organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the European Oilfield...
View Articlewca at SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting
wca are long standing partners of SETAC Europe. As in previous years, we have a major presence at the 36th Annual SETAC Europe Meeting to be held in Maastricht. The meeting starts on 17th May and runs...
View ArticleThe Development of a Bioavailability Model for Uranium
wca are collaborating with the University of Saskatchewan, the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Australia’s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), the UK Centre...
View Articlewca co-authors of one of IEAM’s top 3 Exceptional Papers of 2025
Adam, Iain and Graham are authors on one of Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management’s (IEAM) top 3 Exceptional Papers of 2025. The article “Bioavailability and risk assessment of metals in...
View ArticleSessions accepted at SETAC North America 47th Annual Meeting
wca have had two sessions accepted for the SETAC North America 47th Annual Meeting being held from the 2nd to the 5th November in Montreal, Quebec: Deriving and Implementing Water Quality Criteria for...
View ArticleOutcome of the public consultation on the ATRm for UK REACH
Following Brexit, the EU chemical regulation (REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals) was mirrored in the UK as UK REACH. In May to July of 2024, the UK...
View ArticleUK guidance on pharmaceutical environmental risk assessment
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has finally provided guidance on environmental risk assessments (ERA) for medicines following its departure from the EU. Its approach...
View ArticleRSC Workshop on Evaluating the Reliability and Relevance of Environmental...
Adam, Graham, and Olivia recently presented at a short workshop organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environmental Chemistry Group on Evaluating the Reliability and Relevance of Environmental...
View Articlebio-met v6.0 launched
The updated bio-met bioavailability tool (v6.0) is now live! bio-met is a ‘user-friendly’ bioavailability tool for cobalt, copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on the Biotic Ligand Models (BLM) for...
View ArticleHSE response to consultation on changes to GB CLP
Over the summer of 2025, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) held a consultation on reforms to chemical legislation in Great Britain (GB), which had been retained from the equivalent regulations in...
View ArticleClarification on some aspects of the European Medicine Agency’s revised ERA...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) held a webinar on the revised guideline for the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of human pharmaceuticals in October 2025, and a summary of the webinar has just...
View ArticleEnvironment Agency report – Hazard screening and UK risk prioritisation for...
The Environment Agency has published a report authored by wca scientists that reviewed chemical additives in tyres and identified the substances that should be prioritised for further assessment. wca,...
View ArticleREACH Revision 2025: What It Means for Chemicals Regulation in the EU
The EU is preparing for a significant revision of REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals), its chemicals legislation. The European Commission published its final...
View ArticleSETAC Vienna 2025; Day 2 and 3
It has been an extremely busy two days for the wca team at the SETAC Europe 35th Annual Meeting in Vienna. As well as numerous pre-arranged and ad-hoc meetings with clients and partners, we have also...
View ArticleSETAC Vienna; Day 1
wca staff are enjoying the start of SETAC Europe 2025 in Vienna, despite some of us having one or two travel issues getting here and our posters ending up on a separate flight! These issues have been...
View ArticleWebsite updates ahead of SETAC Vienna
As we look forward to some high quality science at SETAC in Vienna we have been reflecting on our own scientific outputs over the last few years, and consider that they are worth sharing on our...
View ArticleNew UK REACH Fees Effective from 1 April 2025
The UK government made significant changes to the fees under the UK REACH regulation, which came into force on 1 April 2025. These changes are outlined in the recently published Statutory Instrument...
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