Key topics:
- Projects from the EURION Cluster
- Experiences with the ECHA/EFSA ED Guidance
- Biocides: ED assessment
- Requirements in Non-EU
- Developing new testing methods
Join our EURION talks:
Monday 1 March 2021:
10.40am: Test Methods and ED Identification, Prof Dr Majorie van Duursen, Faculty of Science, E&H: Environmental
Health and Toxicology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Progress in the FREIA project as part of the EURION cluster
- Linking biomarkers to female reproductive toxicity and test methods for measuring
- Indicators for reducing the need for test animals in the future
- Possible pathways to explain how EDs can cause female reproductive disorders
- Test methods to predict a chemical’s effect on female reproductive health
- Test methods to identify human-made chemicals that disturb hormones
Tuesday 2 March 2021:
11.00am: Breaking Down the Wall Between Human Health and Environmental Testing, Prof Dries Knapen, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp
- The ERGO project as part of the EURION Cluster
- Aiming at a new approach for identifying endocrine effects
- Key questions on thyroid hormone disruption
- Endocrine Disruption and AOPs: current research and understanding
- What does ecotox tell us about human toxicology?
- And what does it not tell?
11.50am: State of the Research on Metabolic Effects of ED Chemicals, Jenni Küblbeck, PhD, Project Researcher, Scientific manager | EDCMET, University of Eastern Finland, AIV Institute for Molecular Sciences, Finland
- Objectives and framework of the EDCMET project
- EDCMET and the EURION cluster
- Adverse effects of metabolism disrupting chemicals
- Development of validated test methods to assess metabolic effects of EDs
- Identifying molecular initiating events linked to adverse outcomes
- Highlights of research results