07 July 2025
It is busy in PSLT land
ECHA has been tasked by the European Commission to prepare a scoping study aimed at grouping poorly soluble low toxicity (PSLTs) particulates for hazard identification and clarifying [...]
26 March 2025
Particle Platform website live
It has been a tough year for low toxicity particles: talc has been classified as carcinogen 1 B (publication pending) and also in the TiO2 case, the [...]
03 February 2024
Particle Platform
The Particle Platform is an industry initiative coordinated by CEFIC,in which all major particle producers are represented, driving by the common goal to obtain better tests for [...]
30 July 2023
E-Book available online
Meanwhile the E-book with all contributions to the London Particles & health meeting in 2021 are now online. Please go to the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/20810/particles-and-health-2021-an-international-conference-addressing-issues-in-science-and-regulation
Inflammation and adversity
It took a while but finally our paper went online in Toxicology Letters. The paper emerged out of the SAS4REACH consortium in which we discussed the [...]
09 June 2023
UFP exposure near airport
As a toxicology expert I support environmental issues. Since a number of years I help concerned inhabitants of villages near Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA). A number [...]