27 August 2020
MDOT in full drive
It was so good to have our first review meeting of the MDOT EU project on August 27th 2020 (online) with project officer Canger Ozlem and project [...]
31 July 2020
ChemWatch continues debate on PSLT
Yesterday's issue of ChemWatch dedicated an Fresh debate over rodent tests for lung cancer with PSLTs-. Based on a commentary by Danish research Group (Ulla Vogel [...]
Tyre wear a significant source of airborne microplastics
A lot of focus on microplastic waste is to prevent plastic going into our environment. Tyres consist of a mix of elastomers such as rubber (natural [...]
02 June 2020
COVID and nanoparticle parallels
It does not come as a surprise that the COVID-19 virus behaves as a nanoparticle that upon inhalation can deposit in the nasal cavity and cross the [...]
13 May 2020
ZonMW consultation on Microplastics & Health 2020
In 2019 ZonMw, a grant program in the Netherlands, launched the first international research program on Microplastics & Health. While a first series of projects has [...]
27 March 2020
ChemWatch article on workshop
On March 25th 2020,ChemWatch spent an article entitled "Preliminary definition developed for titanium dioxide-type substances" based on the outcomes of the Edinburgh workshop (April 2019) and [...]