Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators: Summary of a SETAC Pellston Workshop

Science-Based Guidance and Framework for the Evaluation and Identification of PBTs and POPs: Summary of a SETAC Pellston Workshop

Chemical Mixtures Executive Summary from a Setac Pellston

Assessing the impacts of chemical mixtures in the environment is challenging largely because of high variation: diverse sources and constituents; routes of environmental exposure; taxa-specific sensitivities. This complexity and uncertainty leads to concerns that current prospective risk assessment (RA) methods are insufficient for appropriate environmental protection. Likewise, there is scope ...

Recommended approaches to the scientific evaluation of ecotoxicological hazards and risks of endocrine-active substances.

A SETAC Pellston Workshop® "Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment Approaches for Endocrine-Active Substances (EHRA)" was held in February 2016 in Pensacola, Florida, USA. The primary objective of the workshop was to provide advice, based on current scientific understanding, to regulators and policy makers; the aim being to make considered, informed decisions on whether to select an ecotoxico...

Evolution and development of the conceptual framework and methodology of life-cycle impact assessment

This document summarizes 2 larger, more detailed, and recently completed workgroup reports on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) (see Barnthouse et al. 1997 and Udo de Haes 1996). The Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) Steering Committee of SETAC Europe and the LCA Advisory Group of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) were workgroup sponsors. The objectives of the 2 workgrou...

AMEG: the new SETAC advisory group on aquatic macrophyte ecotoxicology

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Primary producers play critical structural and functional roles in aquatic ecosystems; therefore, it is imperative that the potential risks of toxicants to aquatic plants are adequately assessed in the risk assessment of chemicals. The standard required macrophyte test species is the floating (non-sediment-rooted) duckweed Lemna spp. This macrophyte species might not...