USEtox – characterizing human and ecotoxicological impacts of chemicals in LCA
USEtox feeds into Europe’s Zero Pollution ambition as part of the European Green Deal as well as into various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to minimizing human and environmental health impacts from hazardous chemicals. USEtox results are applied in various science and policy areas, including life cycle assessment (LCA), chemical substitution and alternatives assessment (CAA), risk assessment (RA), and high-throughput risk screening (HTS).
The introduction into USEtox is aimed at researchers, companies and organizations working with toxicity characterization, chemicals management and environmental assessment. This presentation aims at providing a practical overview of multimedia chemical fate modelling, multi-pathway human exposure modelling, ecosystem and human health effects modelling, and comparative indicators for human-toxicological and ecotoxicological impacts.
Speaker summary
Prof Peter Fantke, the Acting Head of Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Prof Peter Fantke, the Peter Fantke is Professor and Acting Head of Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He develops quantitative methods and data for assessing emissions, fate, exposure, and toxicological effects of chemicals and air pollutants, with a special focus on integrating consumer, worker and population exposure along entire product life cycles.
He is director of USEtox, the UNEP/SETAC scientific consensus model for characterizing chemical toxicity and ecotoxicity. Peter’s methods are applied in life cycle analysis, sustainability assessment, risk screening, chemical substitution, and cost-benefit analysis, and inform companies and regulators alike.