Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe 35th Annual Meeting

The 35th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting to be held in Vienna, Austria on the 11-15th May 2025 will gather approximately 2500 scientists and practitioners from Academia, Industry, Government and Civil Society exploring the overarching theme "Innovation for Tomorrow: Progress in Safe and Sustainable Concepts". Throughout the week SERS Environmental Safety and Sustainability scientists and our network of external partners and collaborators will contribute a substantial number of sessions, oral presentations and posters leading to discussions on latest scientific developments.

Unilever and Partners Oral Presentations

7.02.T-01 Development of a New Framework Advancing the Integration of New Approach Methodologies in Environmental Risk Assessment (PDF 1.71 MB)

Bruno Campos¹, Claudia Rivetti¹, Geoff Hodges¹, Iris Muller¹, Predrag Kukic¹ and Jade Houghton¹, (1)Unilever, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom.

3.05.T-02 Building Knowledge from Available Degradation Simulation Studies to Improve Use in Regulatory Persistence Assessments

Louise Camenzuli¹, Mike Earl², Katie Endersby³, Richard Gibson⁴, Patricia Anna Golombek⁵, Jasmin Hafner⁶, Damian Helbling⁷, Christopher B Hughes⁸, Aurelia Lapczynski⁹, Sven Peter¹⁰, David MV Saunders¹¹, Chiara Maria Vitale¹², Neil Wang¹³, Miriam Leon Paumen¹, Philippe Lemaire¹⁴, Balint Tamasi¹⁵, Johannes Tolls¹⁶, Lucy Wilmot¹⁷ and Marie Collard¹⁸

(1)ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical BV, Belgium, (2)Syngenta Ltd., Jealotts Hill, UK, United Kingdom, (3)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom, (4)Environment Agency, United Kingdom, (5)BASF SE, Germany, (6)Environmental Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland, (7)Cornell University, United States, (8)Embark Chemical Consulting, United Kingdom, (9)RIFM, United States, (10)BASF, Germany, (11)Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands, (12)Proctor & Gamble, Belgium, (13)Syensqo, France, (14)TotalEnergies, France, (15)dsm-firmenich, Switzerland, (16)Henkel AG & Co, Germany, (17)ECETOC, Belgium, (18)DSM-Firmenich, Belgium

1.08.T-04 - Leveraging Molecular Docking Techniques to Support Virtual Screening of Cross-species Susceptibility to Chemical Effects (PDF 1.25 MB)

Rama Krishnan¹, David Spurgeon², Stephen James Short², Bruno Campos³, Claudia Rivetti³, Claire Peart³ and Peter Kille⁴(1)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (2)UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), United Kingdom, (3)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom, (4)Cardiff University, United Kingdom

1.06.A.T-04 - Revolutionizing Chemical Testing: Majority of Substances May Not Require Assessing Effects in Fish (PDF 971.36 KB)

Richa Malik¹, Bruno Campos², Claudia Rivetti², Luigi Margiotta-Casaluci¹ and Christer Hogstrand¹, (1)Kings College London, United Kingdom, (2)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom.

6.04.T-05 MechoA+: One Scheme to Bind Them All (PDF 1020.89 KB)

Gaspard Levet¹, Franklin Bauer¹, James Firman², Homa Basiri², Bruno Campos³, Jayne Roberts³, Paul Thomas¹, Mark Cronin² and Geoff Hodges³, (1)KREATiS, France, (2)Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, (4)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS) Unilever, United Kingdom

4.02.T-01 Leveraging increased microbial cell concentrations to assess the biodegradability of water soluble and water-dispersible polymers in laboratory tests

Glauco Battagliarin¹, Kathleen McDonough², Jan Robinson³, Andrea Brunswik-Titze⁴, Vurtice C Albright III⁵, Marlies Bergheim Sr M⁶, Jared Bozich⁷, Mickael Cregut⁸, Soumya Daturpalli⁹, Katie Endersby¹⁰, Christian Kastner Sr M⁶, Andrea Jacobi¹¹, Georg Kreutzer¹², Arturo Mendoza¹³, Jennifer Menzies¹⁴, Silvia Michelucci¹⁵, Yash Parulekar¹⁶, Meera Raghuram¹⁷, Nathalie Vallotton¹⁸ and Nils Wedler¹⁹, (1)Research Biopolymers, BASF SE, Germany, (2)Procter & Gamble, Mason, United States, (3)A.I.S.E., Brussels, Belgium, (4)Hydrotox GmbH, Germany, (5)The Dow Chemical Company, United States, (6)Henkel AG & Co, Germany, (7)IFF, United States, (8)SYENSQO, BAULKHAM , Australia, (9)BASF Se, Germany, (10)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, UK, (11) Evonik Operations GmbH, Germany, (12)RAPS, Givaudan, Switzerland, (13)Environmental, RAPS Analytical, Givaudan, Switzerland, (14)Procter & Gamble, United States, (15)Ecopol, Italy, (16)MonoSol, Merrillville, United States, (17)Lubrizol, United States, (18)Dow Europe GmbH, Switzerland, (19)Reckitt, Germany

Panel Discussion - NAMs, NGRA and Biodiversity

8.01 - Biodiversity and Chemical Hazard/Risk Assessment: Regulatory Frameworks, Integrative Approaches and Research for a Sustainable Future (PDF 410.01 KB)

Bruno Campos, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS) Unilever, United Kingdom

Unilever and Partners Poster Presentations

1.07.P-Mo008 Evaluating methods for determining membrane-water partitioning of surfactants as an alternative to n-octanol-water partitioning

Geoff Hodges¹, Steven Droge², Eoin Kearney³, Elin Barrett¹, Adriana C. Bejarano⁴, Jens Bietz⁵, Liesa-Kristin Beuter⁶, Kristin Connors⁷, James Dawick⁸, Marc Geurts⁹, Nina Jansen², Mark Miller¹⁰, Diederik Schowanek7 and Sabrina Wilhelm¹¹, (1)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom, (2)Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, (3)Durham University, United Kingdom, (4)Shell Global Solutions, United States, (5)Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany, (6)Nouryon, Sweden, (7)Procter & Gamble Brussels Innovation Centre, Belgium, (8)Innospec Limited, United Kingdom, (9)Nouryon, Netherlands, (10)Durham university, United Kingdom, (11)BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH, Germany

1.07.P-Mo054 Surfactant endpoint read-across strategies under REACH: A review of and guidance for future submissions

Geoff Hodges¹, Barbara Schmitt², Jay Dawick³, Nicole Frijus-Plessen⁴, Erik Houthoff⁵, Lauren Kavanagh³, Joanna Klapacz⁶, Diederik Schowanek⁷, Quan Shi⁸, Mengying Zhang⁷ and Jayne Roberts¹, (1)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom, (2)Evonik Operations GmbH, Germany, (3)Innospec Limited, United Kingdom, (4)Sasol Germany GmbH, Germany, (5)Nouryon, Netherlands, (6)The Dow Chemical Company, United States, (7)Procter & Gamble Brussels Innovation Centre, Belgium, (8)Shell Global Solutions International BV, Netherlands

1.07.P-Mo037 - Ecdysone Receptor Agonism in S2 cells for Insect-Specific In Vitro Assay Development (PDF 1.02 MB)

Rebeka Darmati¹, Bruno Campos², Paul Carmichael² and Nico van den Brink¹, (1)Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Netherlands, (2)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom

3.13.P-Th218 - R-BIONIC – An R package to build confidence in, and drive understanding of in silico predictions for bioconcentration in ionisable compounds using toxicokinetics (PDF 549.24 KB)

Patrik Engi¹, Jacob-Joe Collins¹, Tymoteusz Pietrenko¹, Dawei Tang¹, Ans Punt¹ and Bruno Campos¹, (1)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom

3.02.P-We194 Estimating global spatially resolved marine emissions and exposure to down the drain chemicals (PDF 1.27 MB)

Juliet Hodges¹, Christopher M Holmes², Logan Insinga², Simran Sandhu¹, David Sheffield¹, Emma Langley³, Richard Dannatt³, Geoff Hodges¹ and Kevin Mcgovern³, (1)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom, (2)Applied Analysis Solutions LLC, United States, (3)Intertek Metoc, United Kingdom.

6.02.P-Mo457 Assessing Risks to Biodiversity from Exposure to Chemicals: ECETOC Task Force Findings and Next Steps

Marta Baccaro¹, David A. Bohan², Sian Ellis³, Franziska Enzmann⁴, Nika Galic⁵, Emily Rogevich Garman⁶, Anja Gladbach⁷, Jutta Hellstern⁸, Sarah A. Hughes⁹, Philippe Lemaire¹⁰, Jan-Dieter Ludwigs¹¹, Lorraine Maltby¹², Christoph Mayer¹³, Anna-Maija Nyman¹⁴, Claudia Rivetti¹⁵, Hans Sanderson¹⁶, Simran Sandhu¹⁵, Aaron Stoler¹⁷, Marco Thines¹⁸ and Johannes Tolls⁴, (1)Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy, (2)INRAE, France, (3)Corteva Agriscience, United Kingdom, (4)Henkel AG & Co, Germany, (5)Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Switzerland, (6)NiPERA Inc, United States, (7)Bayer AG, Germany, (8)F-Hoffman-La Roche, Switzerland, (9)Shell, United States, (10)Total Energies, France, (11)Rifcon, Germany, (12)School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, (13)BASF, Germany, (14)European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Finland, (15)Unilever, Sharnbrook, United Kingdom, (16)Aarhus University, Denmark, (17)ExxonMobil, United States, (18)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany

1.07.P-Mo013 Suitability Of the Rtgill-W1 Cell Line Assay (OECD TG 249) to Predict Acute Fish Toxicity for Surfactants

Jayne Roberts¹, Geoff Hodges¹, Kristin Connors², Erin Maloney³, Jay Dawick⁴, Lauren McAnally⁴, Jens Bietz⁵, Frank Seitz⁶, Marc Geurts⁷, Liesa-Kristin Beuter⁷, Kristin Schirmer⁸, Roman Li⁸ and Stephan Fischer⁸, (1)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS) Unilever, United Kingdom, (2)The Procter and Gamble Company, United States, (3)Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands, (4)Innospec Limited, United Kingdom, (5)Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany, (6)Sasol, Germany, (7)Nouryon, Netherlands, (8)aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, Switzerland

2.02.P-Tu168 - Exploring the Applicability of the OECD TG 249 Fish Cell Line Acute Toxicity Assay in Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment of Cosmetic and Personal Care Product Ingredients

Kyle Roush¹, Bruno Campos², Iain Davies³, Alexandra Rachel Evans⁴, Giacomo Grassi⁵, Beta Montemayor⁶, Takahiro Suzuki⁷, Michael Walter⁸, Ryan Heisler⁹ and Amelie Ott9, (1)Proctor & Gamble, United States, (2)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, Bedford, United Kingdom, (3)PCPC, United States, (4)Croda, United Kingdom, (5)L Oreal, France, (6)Science, Regulation and Market Access, Cosmetics Alliance Canada, Canada, (7)Kao Corporation, Japan, (8)BASF, Germany, (9)ICCS, United States

1.07.P-Mo005 Evaluation of an Ontology-Driven In Silico Profiler Representing Mechanisms of Action Related to Endocrine Disruption (PDF 1003.27 KB)

Mark Cronin¹, Homa Basiri¹, Franklin Bauer², Bruno Campos³, James Firman¹, Steve Gutsell³, Geoff Hodges³, Gaspard Levet², Jayne Roberts³ and Paul Thomas2, (1)Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, (2)KREATiS SAS, France, (3)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom

1.07.P-Mo053 Development of Acute to Chronic Ratios (ACRs) Applicable to Surfactant Ecotoxicity (PDF 1.16 MB)

James Firman¹, Baile Xu², Homa Basiri¹, Mark Cronin¹, Geoff Hodges², Jayne Roberts², Simran Sandhu² and Andrea Gredelj², (1)Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, (2)Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, United Kingdom

2.01.P-Mo117 Disentangling the Web: The Impacts of Binary Chemical Mixtures on Consumer-Resource Feeding Interactions (PDF 428.33 KB)

Dylan J Asbury¹, Amy Ockenden¹, Andrew P Beckerman¹, Alistair Boxall², Claudia Rivetti³, Regiane Sanchez-Natumi³ and Lorraine Maltby¹(1)University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, (2) University of York, UK (3) Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, UK

Late Breaking Science

Use of a NAM-Enhanced Read-Across and Weight of Evidence Approach to Avoid Chronic Fish Testing for Alkyl Isethionate Surfactants Under EU REACH (PDF 487.03 KB)

Lauren McAnally¹ , Jay Dawick¹ , Jayne Roberts² , Steve Gutsell ² , Geoff Hodges² , Marc Geurts³ (1)Innospec Limited, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United Kingdom (2) Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Science (SERS), Unilever, Sharnbrook, United Kingdom, (3) Nouryon Specialty Chemicals, Deventer, Netherlands

Next Generation Environmental Risk Assessment: Should we move from data to knowledge driven?

Thomas G. Preuss¹, Fabian Auer², Jens Bietz³, Bruno Campos⁴, Carolina Di Paolo⁵, Maria Fischer², Nina Hallmark¹, Björn Hidding², Kees van Leeuwen⁶, Miriam Leon Paumen⁷, Adriana Wigh⁸, Lucy Wilmot⁹(1) Bayer Cropscience, Germany; (2) BASF, Germany; (3) Clariant, Germany (4) Unilever, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Sciences (SERS), UK; (5) DOW, Switzerland, (6) KWR, The Netherlands; (7) Shell, The Netherlands; (8) Henkel, The Netherlands; (9) ECETOC, Belgium

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