Newsletter 4 Focus On Heroic Partners
Faust und Backhaus Environmental Consulting GbR (F+B) is an SME founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the University of Bremen, Germany (www.fb-envico.com).
F+B provides scientific consultancy, contract research, and project management services in the fields of (eco)toxicology, chemicals risk assessment, and environmental management. Mixture toxicology and chemicals regulation are thematic priorities of F+B research work.
F+B contributes to HEROIC WPs 2, 3 and 4 by specifically addressing the aspects of mixture toxicity and cumulative risk assessments.
F+B is specialised in working at the interface between environmental sciences and chemicals regulation, in particular in the fields of chemical mixtures, endocrine disrupters and engineered nanoparticles (ENPs). F+B explores options for translating new scientific findings into adequate regulatory approaches. F+B contributed to the state-of-the-art reports on risk assessments of chemical mixtures and on endocrine disrupters, both commissioned by DG Environment of the European Commission. F+B also participates in contract studies on the hazard and risk assessment of pesticides and biocides commissioned by the European Food Standard Agency (EFSA), the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), and DG SANCO of the European Commission. In addition to HEROIC, F+B currently participates in the ongoing FP7 project NanoFATE on the environmental risks of ENPs and F+B was also a member of the recently finished FP7 project CONTAMED on the human health risks of mixtures of endocrine disrupters