Principal Investigator
Christopher Hughes
Ricardo Energy & Environment
Gemini Building, Fermi Avenue
Harwell, Oxon, OX11 0QR
United Kingdom
chris.hughes@ricardo.com
Tel. +44 1235 753 687
Collaborators
Dr Stefan Hahn, Fraunhofer ITEM, Hannover, DE, stefan.hahn@item.fraunhofer.de
Michael Klein, Fraunhofer IME, Hannover, DE, michael.klein@ime.fraunhofer.de
David Brown, Ricardo Energy & Environment, Oxon, UK, david.brown@ricardo.com
Dieter Hennecke, Fraunhofer IME, Hannover, DE, dieter.hennecke@ime.fraunhofer.de
Judith Klein, Fraunhofer IME, Hannover, DE, judith.klein@ime.fraunhofer.de
Graham Whale, Whale Environmental Consultancy Ltd, UK, grahamwhale58@gmail.com
Description
This project seeks to explore opportunities to improve weight-of-evidence approaches in persistence assessment by incorporating the latest scientific developments in bioavailability, complex substances and overall persistence. A main focus of the project will be to improve guidance for substances outside the applicability domain of existing frameworks, such as UVCBs and polymers. The overall aim of the project is to offer practical guidance that will improve robustness, consistency and predictability of persistence assessments in chemical regulation.
Related Publications
Posters
Hughes, CB, Brown, DM, Griffiths, M, Hahn, S, Hennecke, D, Klein, J, Klein, M, Whale, GF. Complex substances and overall persistence (BCOP): three themes to deliver a step-change in persistence assessments – Overview of a CEFIC-LRI project (ECO52). SETAC Europe SciCon 30th Annual Meeting, May 2020, online.
Publications
Guidance for the Persistence Assessment of UVCB Substances, Chris Hughes, Ricardo Energy & Environment
Guidance for the Persistence Assessment of difficult Test substance, Chris Hughes, Ricardo Energy & Environment
Guidance for the Persistence Assessment of UVCB Substances, Chris Hughes, Ricardo Energy & Environment
WP3A – Modelling Exercises, Judith Klein, Fraunhofer IME
WP3B – Framework on multi-media fate modelling within persistence assessment, Michael Klein, Fraunhofer IME
WP4 – Comparison between natural and synthetic polymers, Stefan Hahn, Fraunhofer ITEM
WP5 – Framework to Improve the Use of Weight of Evidence in Persistence Assessments, Chris Hughes, Ricardo Energy & Environment
Final Report – Framework on persistence assessment for Polymers and Microplastics, Dr. Stefan Hahn, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and
Experimental Medicine (ITEM) & Dr. Dieter Hennecke, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME)
