Wasn’t it Confucius who said: “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop”. By organizing the first “International Conference on Deriving Environmental Quality Standards for the Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems (EQSPAE, 2011), Hong Kong University and SETAC set the first step for a process aiming to provide a platform for international, regional and local experts from governments, academia and the environmental sector to share their knowledge and expertise on the advancement on the scientific derivation of EQ benchmarks for the protection for aquatic ecosystems and human health.
The EQSPAE 2011 event attracted around 80 people (36 platform presentations; 40 poster discussions) from several countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States.
ARCHE was quite active at the meeting by presenting (Marnix) a talk on ‘Derivation of site-specific EQS for Ni in sediments’ and two posters (Patrick) on ‘Biomet’ and ‘Tiered approach for setting EQS for metals’). After the presentations, break-out sessions were organized on the setting of EQS guidelines for water, sediment and biota for Asian countries. Marnix and Patrick, participated to the sediment EQS session, and the water EQS session, respectively bringing in particular the European expertise on the subjects into the equation. The results of the discussion session will be published as synthesis papers in the international journal ‘Integrated Environmental Management and Assessment’ in 2012. So stay tuned at this website for further news of our efforts in this topic.
Keep track of our latest news
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ARCHE got inspiration for its newest team event!
At ARCHE we are always in for challenges. So in our search for a thrill exceeding those we already got in our daily work, dealing with the challenges REACH deadlines pose to us and our clients, we stumbled on the following event :-)
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Take home messsages ARCHE's Biocidal Products Regulation training
On January 31st 2012 ARCHE and pIEt consulting have organized, at the ARCHE office in Ghent, a training on the Biocidal Products Regulation. We were happy to welcome 13 people from 11 different companies, from which we all received a positive feedback. Click to the right to read on.
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BIOCIDES 2011 conference in Vienna
ARCHE attended the 14th International annual conference in Vienna (Austria) (28-30th November 2011). The conference is organized by Feierl-Herzele GmbH, that also operates the European Biocides Information Network (https://www.europeanbiocides.net). This fully booked conference is greatly appreciated by participants by its interactive nature and the presence of both industry and government representatives. Click to the right to read on.
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EQSPAE conference in Hong-Kong
ARCHE presented at the International EQSPAE Conference 2011. With this conference, Hong Kong University and SETAC aim to provide an international platform for sharing knowledge on the advancement in the scientific derivation of EQ benchmarks for the protection for aquatic ecosystems and human health. Click to the right to read on.
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The launch of our new website
As you may have noticed by now, we have a new website. And we're quite happy about it too! Click on the arrow on the right for more information.
Meet us at these upcoming events
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6th SETAC World Congres
ARCHE is exhibiting at the 6th SETAC World Congress to be held 20-24 May 2012 in Berlin. In addition we are co-chairing a session on "Collection and use of monitoring data for environmental risk assessment of chemicals" scheduled on wednessday 23 May in the morning.
Topic: Securing a sustainable future: integrating science, policy and people
