Assessing the aquatic toxicity of petroleum products: comparison of PETROTOX calculations and SPME-GC screening

May 25, 2016

Report No. 3/16: Using detailed two-dimensional chromatography (GCxGC) analysis of a set of petroleum product samples of Gas Oils, Residual Aromatic Extracts (RAE) and Bitumen categories, PETROTOX predictions have provided information to support revised category...

Critical review of the relationship between IP346 and dermal carcinogenic activity

May 15, 2016

Report no. 6/16: The IP 346 method was adopted as a screening assay to predict the carcinogenicity of specific petroleum streams. Its application is based on a strong correlation with results from over 100 mouse dermal carcinogenicity studies, which were reported in a...

Analysis of N-, O-, and S- heterocyclics in petroleum products using GCxGC with specific detection

May 9, 2016

Report no. 2/16: REACH dossiers on all p etroleum productcategories were compiled and submitted by Concawe in 2010. ECHA subsequently raised co ncerns regarding the tech nical justification of the assumptions and too ls use d to generate the cu rrent PNECs for...

The Natural Attenuation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters in Soil and Groundwater (report no. 5/16)

Mar 14, 2016

Report no. 5/16: With the increasing use of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in automotive fuels there is growing interest in the fate and effects of biodiesel, and biodiesel/ petroleum distillate blends in the environment. While biodegradation of FAME has been...

Review of recent health effect studies with sulphur dioxide

Mar 9, 2016

Report no. 4/16: This report focuses on published toxicology and epidemiology studies that have examined the relationship between sulphur dioxide exposures and the occurrence of acute and chronic health effects in laboratory animals and humans. All relevant studies...