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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
LABORATORIES
PUBLISHERS
INDUSTRY GROUPS
CHEMICAL COMPANIES
CONSULTANCIES

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Environment Agency Chemicals Assessment Unit
(http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/):

ESR Environmental Risk Assessments (in progress) – assessment of environmental risks from three common flame retardants, based on consultation with industry, published data, and results of new studies.

Environmental Risk Assessment of Alkylthiols (2004) – assessment of environmental risks from TDM (a substance commonly used in polymer production) and related substances, based on consultation with industry and regulators, and published data.

Green Chemical Design (2004) – scoping project investigating green chemical design approaches, highlighting the key issues and points of interest.

Flame Retardants review (2003) – collation and review of chemical properties and published use data for all flame retardants identified in the context of the EU market. Agency report available online at: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/105385/frreportfinal_578692.pdf

Risk Profiles (2003) – development of a new, generic approach to profiling potential environmental risk of many substances, focussing on additives in the plastics and lubricants industries. This is an example of an R and D project requiring close collaboration with the Environment Agency project manager.

PBT Screening report (2002) – collation and review of chemical property data for HPV chemicals, in the context of draft Chemicals Stakeholder Forum threshold criteria for substances potentially of concern.

EUSES guidance (2000) – collaboration in production of user-friendly guidance for users of EUSES, a computer program for environmental risk assessment.

Perfluoroalkylated Substances (2000) – collation and review of chemical properties and published use data for these substances.

Chemicals guidance (2001) – Feasibility study on provision of guidance on environmentally relevant chemicals regulation, in the context of COSHH Essentials.

Natural England (formerly English Nature)
http://www.englishnature.gov.uk/

Substance profiles (2001) - updating and reworking existing data in the form of substance profiles, which form part of Version 2 of the Water Quality Guidance Document

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LABORATORIES

SafePharm Laboratories
http://www.safepharm.co.uk/

General consultancy services (1997 to date) – provision of expert reports, including literature reviews and validated QSAR reports; occasional support on risk assessment and testing issues.

Shell Global Solutions
http://www.shellglobalsolutions.com/analytical/index.htm

General support (ongoing) – advice on testing issues and staff training.

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PUBLISHERS

Croner
http://www.croner.co.uk

Croner-I Hazardous substances
preparation of topics and collation of reference data for on-line publication. Peter Fisk is a consultant editor.

'Chemical Safety Briefing' newsletter (both 1996 to date)
regular gathering and writing up news; occasional articles for the newsletter. Peter Fisk is a consultant editor.

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INDUSTRY GROUPS

Long Chain Aliphatic Alcohols HPV Consortium
http://www.cleaning101.com/welcome.html

Work on Long chain aliphatic alcohols category HPV submission (2004-06). Development of existing draft IUCLID SIDS dossiers, SIAR and SIAP for this large category (comprising 30 sponsored substances).

American Chemistry Council Phosphonic Acid Compounds Panel
http://www.americanchemistry.com/

HPV submission for phosphonic acids categories (2003-04) – review of data, and preparation of IUCLID SIDS dossiers, SIARs and SIAPs for this three-group category. SIAPs available online via http://cs3-hq.oecd.org/scripts/hpv/

CEFIC CES (Centre Européen des Silicones) sector group
http://www.silicones-europe.com/

Exposure assessment of a siloxane compound (2001) – development of predicted environmental concentrations of this HPV chemical, in consultation with industry. Subsequently developed into a risk assessment by the French competent authority.

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CHEMICAL COMPANIES

We have a range of industry contacts but it is not appropriate to list them here.

Among our recent and ongoing projects for industrial clients (individual companies/consortia) are:

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CONSULTANCIES

LGC (formerly Laboratory of the Government Chemist)
http://www.lgc.co.uk/

Chemical Regulatory Atlas (1998) – production of user-friendly guidance to responsibilities under current legislation relating to chemicals industries. Sponsored by DTI.

Development of a web-based guidance document on dissociation constant resources, in collaboration with LGC, and sponsored by DTI. This web-based resource can be viewed here.

We have collaborated often with various other companies and consultancies, including work on some of these projects.

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