What regMSC offers

Offerings include the:

assessment of aquatic, terrestrial and sediment related properties of substances, including biocidal active substances, mixtures, difficult to test substances, UVCBs, nanomaterials and polymers;
derivation of environmental compartment specific PNECs, and Classification and Labelling;
environmental release and exposure assessment with modelling tools such as ECETOC TRA Worker, Chesar and EUSES;
presentation of the hazard database, exposure assessment, risk and hazard conclusions at technical meetings;
regulatory strategy development and implementation.

Environmental Hazard Assessment

Aims to define the concentration-response relationship of a chemical’s ecotoxicological properties in different environmental compartments, its environmentally relevant physico-chemical, and environmental fate properties. These ecotoxicological properties can be converted into reference values for risk assessment (e.g. PNECs) and the substance’s classification and labelling.

Environmental Exposure Assessment

Aims to estimate the environmental exposure concentrations, including their frequency and duration, based on a chemical’s use and release patterns. Generally through the use of exposure modelling, and occasionally through environmental monitoring.

Environmental Risk Characterisation

After assessment of hazard and exposure, the environmental risk can be characterised using the risk characterisation ratio (RCR). Point-based or probabilistic techniques and procedures may be employed in function of the available information.

Human Health Assessment and Risk Characterisation

Analogous to environmental hazard, exposure and risk characterisation, where the protection targets are humans. Based on his many years of experience as Chairman of the MSC, Watze has acquired a good understanding of the main concepts and critical elements in these science areas.

Regulatory Strategies and Scientific Advocacy