Employee Ownership Day 2023
wca are proud to be an employee owned company and Employee Ownership Day is celebrated annually across the UK; this year’s celebrations on 23rd June will be as important as ever. The Employee Ownership...
View ArticleImplementing approaches to account for metal bioavailability in freshwaters:...
When Graham and Adam attended SETAC North America in Pittsburgh last year they organised a meeting to discuss the approaches to metal bioavailability implementation in different regions, states, and...
View ArticleConfirmation of extension of the UK REACH registration deadlines and data...
We published a blog in May about the draft Statutory Instruments which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) had presented to Parliament for extending the registration...
View ArticleDetection of anti-androgenic activity of chemicals in fish studies: a data...
Hot off the press! Grace and Becky, with colleagues from CropLife Europe, have just had a review paper on the sensitivity of fish testing guidelines to detect the anti-androgenic activity of...
View ArticleConducting and interpreting vitellogenin measurements in fish for regulatory...
wca are pleased to announce the publication of two new open access papers concerning the assessment of the vitellogenin protein (a pivotal protein biomarker for endocrine activity of chemicals) in...
View ArticleSETAC Seville 2024
wca will be active again at SETAC in 2024 which will be hosted in sunny Seville (#SETACSeville). We are inviting people to submit abstracts for a variety of sessions covering topics including endocrine...
View ArticleBiocides Europe 2023 conference
Earlier in December, I had the privilege of attending the Biocides Europe 2023 conference in Vienna, organized by Chemical Watch. The conference brought together representatives of the European...
View ArticleCriteria for Reporting and Evaluating Exposure Datasets (CREED)
When undertaking an environmental risk assessment for a chemical there are commonly two key inputs; the first is related to the how hazardous the chemical is, most often determined through the use of...
View ArticleEnvironmental risk assessment of the use of zinc oxide medicated feeds for...
Adam and Graham have recently published a study evaluating the potential environmental risks that may result from the use of zinc oxide based medicated feeds for weaning piglets. The study considered a...
View ArticleEstablishing a Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals and Waste – Insights for...
The International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP) hosted a webinar on 4th April discussing the establishment an intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel (SPP) on chemicals, waste and pollution...
View Articlewca at SETAC Europe 2024
wca are long standing partners of SETAC Europe. As in previous years, we have a major presence at the 34th Annual SETAC Europe Meeting to be held in Seville. The meeting starts on 5th May and runs...
View Articlewca at CHEMUK 2024
wca will be at the CHEMUK show for the first time this year on the 15th and 16th May at the NEC, Birmingham . The event is free to attend, with around 500 exhibitors across designated zones for...
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Regression on Order Statistics – an approach for dealing with non-detects
Measured concentrations below the limit of detection (LoD) (or limit of quantification (LoQ)) can be a potential issue when performing a chemical risk assessment. Numerous methods have been applied...
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How to Make the Most of Data of Chemicals Concentrations in Environmental...
How to Make the Most of Data of Chemicals Concentrations in Environmental Media: Practical Use of CREED, Challenges and Solutions SETAC Seville Tuesday 7th of May, TV Room, 16:45-18:15 Graham...
View ArticleSETAC Seville Day 1
wca had an action packed Day 1 at SETAC Europe; Iain chaired a session, Ed having a poster spotlight, a poster each from Becky and Graham and the Pharmaceutical Interest Group meeting. The metals...
View ArticleSETAC Seville Day 2
Becky was co-chair of an endocrine disruption session on Day 2 of SETAC Europe and also had a platform on the assessment of endocrine disruption potential of hydrocarbon UVCBs. The session was well...
View ArticleWater Quality Stocktake: Identification of Priority Emerging Pollutants in...
At the SETAC Europe conference in Seville Ed presented his poster on the prioritisation of emerging contaminants in water on the same day that the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) published...
View ArticleConsultation on UK REACH – what might this mean?
The long-awaited consultation on the Alternative Transitional Registration model (ATRm) under UK REACH is now open, with two of the key takeaways from the new proposals being: Reduced hazard...
View ArticlePreparation for UK REACH – Analytical data
As discussed in our previous blog, the consultation on the Alternative Transitional Registration model (ATRm) for UK REACH indicates that there is potentially a significant reduction in the amount of...
View ArticleSETAC Seville – what a week!
Although the SETAC Europe conference in Seville has come to an end, the inspiring experiences and discussions will linger with us for a long time…With over 3000 attendees from around the world, 10...
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