Eight team members from Cambridge Environmental Assessments will attend the SETAC Europe conference in Dublin from 30th April to 4th May 2023.

During the conference, Abdul Abu, Adrian Terry, Amy Brooks, Bashir Surfraz, Helena Crosland, Marie Brown, Nadine Taylor, and Sarah Priestly, will present 16 posters (including a poster corner and poster spotlight) on some of our recent work.

Amy Brooks will also be co-chairing two sessions: ‘Bird and mammal risk assessment: now and preparation for the future’ and ‘Getting the soil loop rolling: ecotoxicology, risk prediction, monitoring and back’.

The titles of our posters are given below:

  • Continuous culture establishment and gestation synchronisation of Cloeon dipterum (lead CEA author: Katie Smith)
  • The importance of confidence limits for ecotoxicological endpoints (lead CEA author: Zoe Parker-Crosse)
  • Mesocosm studies: representativeness and reliability (lead CEA author: Marie Brown)
  • Are mesocosms really not suitable for the risk assessment of plant protection products? (lead CEA author: Nadine Taylor)
  • Biostimulants: a complex ecotoxicological challenge (lead CEA author: Nadine Taylor
  • Copper deficiency in aquatic organisms: how should this be considered as part of the PPP risk assessment? (lead CEA author: Sarah Priestly)
  • A survey of copper in sediments and an assessment of potential stressors to resident benthic communities (lead CEA author: David Brown)
  • A toolbox of strategies to meet the European Green Deal’s pesticide reduction target: a case study in the sustainable use of copper as a plant protection product (lead CEA author: David Brown)
  • Occurrence of common frog and common toad in agricultural fields in Germany: potential for exposure to plant protection products (lead CEA author: Nadine Taylor)
  • Experience to date deriving endpoints for birds and mammals using the new EFSA guidance (lead CEA author: Helena Crosland)
  • Time-weighted average factor (fTWA) assessments for birds and mammals under the new bird and mammal guidance: experiences to date (lead CEA author: Amy Brooks)
  • Residue studies for bird and mammal risk assessment: controlling the uncontrollable (lead CEA author: Helena Crosland)
  • Developments in the pollinator risk assessment following the new EFSA guidance document and ICPPR (lead CEA author: Helena Crosland)
  • C2D2: an open-source, pan-European, harmonized crop development database for use in pesticide exposure modelling and risk assessment (lead CEA author: Adrian Terry)
  • On the use of science-based thresholds for the interpretation of environmental monitoring data: Demonstrating that glyphosate residues in European water pose no risk to ecosystems or human health (lead CEA author: Adrian Terry)
  • Pesticides and their metabolites in European surface and groundwater: Understanding interacting regulations and approaches to environmental monitoring (lead CEA author: Adrian Terry)

The posters will all be available for free download after the conference. They, together will all of our presentations from previous SETAC meetings, will be available in the CEA library.

Please get in touch if you would like to know more about any of the posters we are planning on presenting, or if you would like to arrange a meeting during the SETAC Dublin conference.