Working together to advance chemical safety - Blanca Serrano, ECETOC
In this episode I speak with Dr. Blanca Serrano Ramón, Secretary General of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC).
ECETOC is a scientific organisation that brings together experts from industry, academia and regulatory bodies to tackle challenges and deliver solutions for chemical safety.
Through its range of task forces, events and coordination activities, ECETOC is working across the full spectrum of chemical hazard and risk assessment topics, including endocrine disruption, new approach methodologies (NAMs), biodiversity, microplastics, persistence, and mobility (to name a few). They also develop and maintain a number of advanced risk assessment tools.
Our conversation covers
- What is ECETOC? What do they do?
- Why it's important to have dialogue between industry, academia and regulatory bodies
- Face-to-face vs online interactions
- Blanca’s background and journey to ECETOC
- Reflections on working at ECETOC
- ECETOC’s work on polymers
- The need to improve awareness and education in regulatory science
- Risk perception, trust in science, and science communication
- Two years on: the debate on conflicts of interest
- ECETOC associate membership
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