Ecotoxicology, environmental fate and risk assessment

Behaviour and Effects in the Environment

The following outlines the kind of services we provide in the area of applied ecotoxicology, environmental fate and risk assessment:

Literature Review
Retrieval, organization, analysis and presentation of accurate information on the behavior and toxicity of substances in the environment.

Environmental fate
Determination of the fate of substances in soil, water and air and derivation of predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) according to procedures specific for different types of industries (chemicals, consumer products, pesticides or biocides, pharmaceuticals).

Ecotoxicology
Scientific and regulatory interpretation of toxicity data on aquatic (fish, daphnia, algae, sediment-dwellers) and terrestrial (birds and mammals, soil macro and micro-organisms, non-target arthropods) organisms. Derivation of Predicted No Effect Concentrations (PNECs).

Testing Strategy
Development of regulation-specific testing strategies, including possibilities for modeling and read-across.

Study Management
Placement and monitoring of studies in the areas of physico-chemistry, environmental fate and ecotoxicology (aquatic and terrestrial, including non-target arthropods).

Risk Assessment
Comprehensive deterministic and probabilistic environmental health risk assessments.