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Topical Scientific Workshop on Soil Risk Assessment
7-8 October 2015 | Helsinki
The topical scientific workshops of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) aim to foster discussions among academia, regulators, industry and other stakeholders on the possible regulatory impacts that the latest scientific developments may have.
The Topical Scientific Workshop on Soil Risk Assessment was arranged in cooperation with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). An anticipated outcome of this workshop was the emergence of new or improved approaches which may be applied in the implementation of the relevant European regulations.
Reflecting the current state of science on soil ecotoxicology, the following themes were covered in the workshop:
- Current regulatory frameworks for chemicals, including biocides and pesticides; risk assessment on soil organisms, role of screening/standard approaches and strategies for higher tier testing.
- Consideration of the commonalities and differences, including protection goals, in current regulatory schemes focussing on industrial chemicals (REACH), biocides and plant protection products, with a view to identifying synergies and developing harmonisation principles.
- Key elements of direct/indirect soil exposure according to the use patterns and technological processes (including chemicals reaching the soil through industrial and municipal waste management processes, as well as emission and exposure scenarios for pesticides and biocides resulting in soil exposure) and the subsequent environmental fate processes in soil.
- Identification of relevant ecological endpoints related to organisms exposed by soil or through soil application/deposition.
- The risk assessment of in-soil dwelling organisms and plants exposed by soil, excluding broader terrestrial environmental processes, such as secondary poisoning and risk assessment for birds and mammals.
- Combining and linking different types of information, i.e. modelling, laboratory and field evidence on ecotoxicity, exposure, persistence, bioaccumulation, bioavailability in soils, and ecosystem quality/function.
- Testing strategies applied in soil risk assessment with particular focus on higher tier studies.
- Development of new alternative approaches for soil risk assessment and applicability in a regulatory context.
Break-out group discussions focused on:
- Problem definition and conceptual model for soil risk assessment
- Environmental exposure assessment and in-soil fate processes
- Effects assessment
Programme
- Programme [PDF]
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Webstreaming
Day 1 – part 2 Key note presentationsDay 2 – part 1 Case studies
Proceedings
Poster exibition
- Poster abstracts [PDF]
| Topic 1: Problem definition and conceptual model for soil risk assessment | |||
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| Number | Organisation / Country | Submitter | Title / Authors / Poster |
| 1 |
DuPont Crop Protection, GermanyDuPont Crop Protection, Germany |
Dr Axel Dinter |
A Comparison of Functional and Structural Soil Testing for Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products
Axel Dinter, Alan Samel and Stefania Loutseti
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| 2 |
Institute for Environmental Research, Germany Institute for AgroEcology, Germany gaiac, Germany |
Dr Martina Roß-Nickoll |
Biodiversity and structural diversity in the agricultural landscape – An overall concept relevant for soil risk assessment? Martina Roß-Nickoll, Mark Deubert, Richard Ottermanns, Andreas Schäffer, Björn Scholz-Starke, Lucas Streib, Andreas Toschk, Matthias Trapp Poster [PDF] |
| 3 |
gaiac - Research Institute for Ecosystem Analysis and Assessment, Germany |
Dr Andreas Toschki |
Iterative adaptive monitoring to link the gaps in current risk assessment Andreas Toschki, Martina Roß-Nickoll, Monika Hammers-Wirtz Poster [PDF] |
| 4 |
Monsanto Europe S.A., Belgium |
Dr Georg von Mérey |
Soil risk assessment for glyphosate and AMPA Georg von Mérey, Philip S. Manson, Steven L. Levine, Peter Sutton
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| 5 |
BASF SE Bayer CropScience AG Dow AgroSciences Syngenta Adama DuPont Cheminova |
Dr Matthias Bergtold |
Making soil protection goals based on the ecosystem services concept operational in ecotoxicological risk assessments
Matthias Bergtold, Patrick Kabouw, G. Ernst, J. Bendall, M. Coulson, B. Garlej, P., S. Loutseti, A. Sharples
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| 6 |
University of Sadat City, Egypt University of Helsinki, Finland Minufiya University, Egypt |
Prof Mohamed Fathy Salem |
Innovative Biofumigation Technologies for Soil risk Assessment
Mohamed Fathy Salem, Priit Tammeorg, Mahmoud F. Seleiman, Ahmed A. Tayel
Poster [PDF] |
| 7 | ECHA, Finland | Mr Dragan M. Jevtić |
Making use of publicly available studies within the REACH Regulation: An overview of submitted terrestrial toxicity data Dragan M. Jevtić, Marta Sobańska, Andrea Gissi, Tomasz Sobański, Anu Kapanen Poster [PDF] |
| 8 |
Ramboll Environ UK |
Dr Samantha Deacon |
How can soil risk assessment data be used in ecosystem services analysis for agrochemicals regulation? Samantha Deacon (Ramboll Environ UK) and Anne Alix (Dow AgroSciences, UK)
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| Topic 2: Environmental exposure and fate assessment | |||
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Poster number |
Organisation / Country | Submitter | Title / Authors / Poster |
| 9 | Istituto Superiore di sanità, Italy | Dr Gianfranco Brambilla |
Environmental risk assessment of agriculture soils towards food safety and food security requirements
Gianfranco Brambilla
Poster [PDF]
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| 10 | University of Reading, United Kingdom | Prof Chris D. Collins |
Towards a unified approach for the determination of the bioaccessibility of organic pollutants
Chris D. Collins, Mark Craggs, Sonia Garcia-Alcega, Katerina Kademoglou, Stephen Lowe
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| 11 | French agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety (ANSES), France | Dr Arnaud Conrad |
French Regulatory Feedback on new EFSA guidance for predicting concentration of active substances of plant protection products in soil: Impact on the risk assessment
Conrad A, Brulle F; Vuillemard P; Farama E, Boivin A, Poulsen V
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| 12 | Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomic Research (NIBIO), Norway | Dr/Prof Ole M Eklo |
Comparing PRZM, PEARL and MACRO using field data from a case study of pesticide leaching in Norway
Gomez-Aledo P, Balderacchi M, Benoit P, Bolli R, Eklo OM, Kværner J, Pot V & Trevisan M
Poster [PDF]
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| 13 | BASF SE, Germany | Dr Bernhard Gottesbüren |
Degradation, persistence and exposure of pesticides in soil under different environmental scenarios - simulation and measurements
Bernhard Gottesbüren
Poster [PDF]
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| 14 | Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Canada | Dr Lai Gui |
Unsaturated column for evaluation of pesticide behavior in soil
Lai Gui, Ian Kennedy, Robert W. Gillh
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| 15 | University of Helsinki, Finland | Ms Inka Reijonen |
Chemical bioavailability of vanadium species in soil – effect of soil pH and organic matter
Inka Reijonen
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| 16 |
NGU-Norway
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials-Germany
Geological Survey of Sweden
Rio Tinto, Belgium
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Dr Ilse Schoeters |
GEMAS: An overview of the distribution of metals in agricultural soil at the continental (European) scale
Clemens Reimann, Manfred Birke, Anna Ladenberger, Ilse Schoeters
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| 17 | PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands | Dr Aaldrik Tiktak |
European standardised scenarios for exposure of soil organisms to pesticides
Aaldrik Tiktak, Michael Klein, Mark Egsmose
Poster [PDF]
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| 18 |
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira
Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE)
Finnish Partnership for Research on Natural Resources and the Environment (LYNET)
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Mr Kimmo Suominen |
Hazardous organic compounds in biogas plant digestates
— Soil burden and risk to food safety
K. Suominen a, M. Vertab, S. Marttinenc
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| Topic 3: Effect assessment | |||
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Poster number |
Organisation / Country | Submitter | Title / Authors / Poster |
| 19 |
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
BayerCropscience, Germany
Agroscope, Switzerland
BASF SE, Germany
Dow AgroSciences - Environmental Regulatory Sciences, Italy
DuPont Crop Protection, United States
ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety,France
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy
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Dr Gertie H.P.Arts |
Ecosystem services approach to pesticide risk assessment and management of non-target terrestrial plants: recommendations from two SETAC Europe workshops
Gertie H.P.Arts, Lorraine Maltby, Margit Dollinger, Eva Kohlschmid, Christoph Mayer, Giovanna Meregalli, Hugo Ochoa-Acuña, Véronique Poulsen, Franz Streissl
Poster [PDF]
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| 20 |
International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO), USA
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Ohio State University, USA.
ARCHE, Belgium
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Dr ohammed Jasim Chowdhury |
Approaches and tools to correct ageing effects and bioavailability in ecological risk assessment of lead in soil
Mohammed Jasim Chowdhury, Erik Smolders Roman Lanno, Koen Oorts
Poster [PDF]
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| 21 |
Syngenta, United Kingdom |
Dr Mike Coulson |
Re-calibration of the earthworm tier 1 risk assessment of plant protection products Coulson M, Christl H, Bendall J, Bergtold M, Dinter A, Garlej B, Hammel K, Kabouw P, Sharples A, von Mérey G, Vrbka S, Ernst G
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| 22 |
Bayer CropScience AG, Germany |
Dr Gregor Ernst |
Soil functional test systems for an in-crop soil risk assessment of plant protection products G. Ernst, J. Bendall, M. Coulson, B. Garlej, P. Kabouw, S. Loutseti, A. Sharples
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| 23 | EFSA, Italy | Dr Prof Ettore Gardi |
Environmental risks of biochar in soils: ecotoxicological effects on plants and microarthropos F.D. Conti, C. Gardi, G. Visioli, C. Menta
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| 24 | Wca-environment, United Kingdom | Dr Graham Merrington |
Using higher-tier data in the nickel terrestrial effects assessment: reducing residual uncertainty? Graham Merrington, Christian Schlekat, Beverley Hale, Yamini Gopalapillai, Tyson Jennett, Julie Kikkert, Wilson Lau, Mike McLaughlin Poster [PDF] |
| 25 |
New Castle University, United Kingdom |
Dr Philip Probert |
Tracking soil contaminants using in vitro toxicity assays Probert, PME., Meyer, SK., Cooke, MP., Dunn, M., Blake L., Wright, MC. Poster [PDF] |
| 26 |
University of the Basque Country, Spain |
Assessment of the impact of an abandoned dump site on the health of adjacent soil ecosystems by in vivo and in vitro testing with Eisenia fetida Amaia Irizar, Nerea Garcia, Daniel Buey, Javier Etxebarria, Nestor Etxebarria, Ionan Marigómez, Manu Soto
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| 27 |
NERC-CEH, United Kingdom University of Granada, Spain NanoHealth & Safety group, Spain NERC-CEH, United Kingdom University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA |
Dr Claus Svendsen |
How well can standard soil tests provide the needed evidence for risk assessment of nanomaterials? Claus Svendsen, Elma Lahive, Marianne Matzke, Ana Romero-Freire, Maria Diez Ortiz, Alan Lawlor, Daniel Starnes, Olga Tsyusko, Jason Unrine, David Spurgeon and Steve Lofts Poster [PDF] |
| 28 | ECHA, Finland | Dr Romanas Cesnaitis |
Intergrated testing strategy for effects on terrestrial organisms under the REACH Regulation Romanas Cesnaitis, Marta Sobanska, Vincent Bonnomet, Dragan M. Jevtić, Amaia Rodriguez-Ruiz, Anu Kapanen Poster [PDF] |
| 29 | ECHA, Finland | Dr Marta Sobanska |
Analysis of experimental terrestrial toxicity studies submitted in the framework of the REACH Regulation Marta Sobanska, Amaia Rodriguez-Ruiz, Dragan M. Jevtić, Romanas Cesnaitis, Andrea Gissi, Tomasz Sobanski, Anu Kapanen Poster [PDF] |
List of participants
Presentations
Plenary sessions
Soil Risk Assessment in the regulatory context
- Marta Sobanska, ECHA [PDF]
- Maria Arena, EFSA [PDF]
- David W. Charters, US EPA [PDF]
- Janet Cermak, Environment Canada [PDF]
- Protection goals and conceptual models; How science can support risk managers on what to protect? [PDF] Jose Tarazona, EFSA
- Overview of processes driving the exposure of chemicals in soil [PDF] Willie Peijnenburg, RIVM
- Laboratory and higher-tier effect tests in soil ecotoxicology: state-of-the-art and new developments [PDF] Jörg Römbke, ECT GmbH
Break-out groups
1. Problem definition and conceptual model for soil risk assessment
- Making soil protection goals based on the ecosystem services concept operational in ecotoxicological risk assessments [PDF] Gregor Ernst, Bayer CropScience AG
- Bioavailability based approaches for soil risk assessment of metals: Regional differences arising from distributions of soil chemical properties [PDF] Christian Schlekat, Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association
2. Environmental exposure and fate assessment
- Practical examples on how the EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentrations of substances in soil can be used [PDF] Mark Egsmose, EFSA and Michael Klein, Fraunhofer IME
- From bioavailability science to regulation of organic chemicals [PDF] Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo, Institute of Natural resources and Agrobiology
3. Effect assessment
- Application of Equilibrium partitioning-based model framework for evaluating soil (and sediment) hazards of lipophilic nonpolar organic substances [PDF] Aaron Redman, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. [PDF]
- Assessing the risks of pesticides to soil communities using terrestrial model ecosystems [PDF] Björn Scholz-Starke, RWTH Aachen University [PDF]
- Case study 1: Critical comparison of the schemes used to assess soil exposure under Pesticide, Biocide and REACH legislation [PDF] Bruce Callow, Exponent International Ltd
- Case study 2: Application of improved scientific approaches in support of risk assessment within the European REACH and Biocides Regulations – a case study on metals [PDF] Koen Oorts, ARCHE
- Case study 3: Performing soil risk assessments using aquatic hazard information only: how well can it capture all the risks? [PDF] Michiel Claessens, Chemours
- Case study 4: Compilation of case studies with challenges in regulatory soil risk assessment [PDF] Romanas Cesnaitis, ECHA
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Case study 5: Risk assessment for in soil organisms: future approaches and perspective [PDF] Maria Arena, EFSA
Break-out groups: outcome of the discussions
The chairs of the scientific committee, Dr Anu Kapanen from the European Chemicals Agency and Dr José V. Tarazona from the European Food Safety Authority, are supported by an international scientific committee. The members are:
Ms Charmaine Ajao, European Chemicals Agency, Finland
Dr Maria Arena, European Food Safety Authority, Italy
Dr Mark Bonnell, Environment Canada, Canada
Dr Charles Eadsforth, Shell, United Kingdom
Dr Mark Egsmose, European Food Safety Authority, Italy
Dr Marc S. Greenberg, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, United States of America
Dr Derek Knight, European Chemicals Agency, Finland
Dr Paul Henning Krogh, Aarhus University, Denmark
Prof Dr Willie Peijnenburg, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands
Dr Eleonora Petersohn, Federal environment agency (UBA), Germany
Dr Veronique Poulsen, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), France
Dr Jörg Römbke, ECT oekotoxikologie GmbH, Germany
Dr Kees Romijn, Bayer, France
Dr Ilse Schoeters, Rio Tinto, Belgium
Prof Dr José Paulo Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr Cornelis A.M. van Gestel, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Ms Charmaine Ajao, Scientific Officer (Chair)
Dr Romanas Cesnaitis, Scientific Officer
Mr Dragan Jevtic, Scientific Assistant
Dr Anu Kapanen, Senior Scientific Officer
Dr Derek Knight, Scientific Advisor
Ms Johanna Peltola-Thies, Senior Scientific Officer
Ms Lucie Ribeiro, Scientific Officer
Dr Amaia Rodriguez-Ruiz, Scientific Officer
Dr Marta Sobanska, Scientific Officer
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