19th International Akademie Fresenius ECOTOX Conference

Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecotoxicology and Risk Management

Regulatory Developments

• Update from the EU Commission and ANSES
• Pesticide environmental risk assessment in Canada: data requirements, methods and risk management

Assessment of Endocrine Disruptors

• Application of the guidance document: authority and industry experience
• Animal welfare issues

Biodiversity – Application in Environmental Risk Assessment

• German Environment Agency (UBA) on implementing biodiversity in ERA
• Integration of profitable farming with wildlife conservation

Risk Refinements – Higher Tier Options

• Higher tier aquatic risk assessment
• Verifying the tiered approach proposed in the EFSA scientific opinion for sediment organisms
• A systems approach to non-target arthropod risk assessment

Pros and Cons of Community-Based Effect Studies

• HSE on the statistical analysis of community level studies
• Experience with conducting aquatic community-based effect studies

Communication and Media Discourse

• Poison in food and its scandalisation