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• Newsletter.1 - HEROIC – An Introduction
• Newsletter.1-We are HEROICs and how we work
• Newsletter.1 - Focus on HEROIC partners
• Newsletter 2 Strengths, weaknesses/limitations, opportunities, and threats (SWOT): analysis of the "as is" situation in RA
• Newsletter 2 The accessibility of available data: the Tox-Hub platform
• Newsletter 2 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 3 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 3 Examination and inventory of endpoints, data and models available for hazard and exposure assessment
• Newsletter 4 integrated risk assessment of chemical mixture
• Newsletter 4 Focus On Heroic Partners
• Newsletter 5 HEROIC consultation workshop on expert elicitation
• Newsletter 5 Expert Workshop on Extrapolation for Hazard Assessment
• Newsletter 5 Stakeholders consultation on potential socio-behaviour factors
• Newsletter 5 Focus on Heroic partners
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC roadmap to the white paper on policy and technical recommendations
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Expert workshop on extrapolations in integrated exposure assessment, Paris, January 21-22, 2014
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Focus on Heroic partners
• Newsletter 6 HEROIC Expert roundtable on socio-behavioural factors in risk analysis policy making
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Newsletter 6 HEROIC Focus On Heroic Partners

Electricite de France (EDF, www.edf.fr), founded 1946, is a private company specializing in electricity, from engineering to distribution, and is one of the world largest producer of electricity. As part of the Research and Development Division in Chatou, France, the research Department involved in the HEROIC project is the National Hydraulic and Environment Department (LNHE, over 100 researchers). LNHE is one of the fifteen R&D Departments at EDF in charge of controlling the impact on health and aquatic environment of power generation plants. The activities of LNHE are organized around three research teams, one of them is the "Industry, water, environment and health" unit. The main topics this unit works on are: health hazards (chemicals, microbiology), radioecology and impacts of power generation on water quality and soil contamination. Scientific work is based on a wide range of tools: in situ measurement tools, test facilities, modeling, chemistry, microbiology and toxicology laboratories.

With its expertise in  ecotoxicology, exposure modelling, WoE approaches and environmental and health risk assessment, EDF is responsible for   WP4 "Integrated decision making framework for the future" and is involved in WP2 and WP3 in various activities related to exposure assessment and exposure modeling. The general goal of WP4 is to define a framework allowing the selection of the most informative data for human health and environmental risk assessment based on the following contributions:

• ranking and weighting reliability and relevance of available information related to hazard and exposure assessment (provided by WP3);
• integrating such information for decision making using a WoE approach;
• guiding the generation of new data through an Integrated Testing Strategy (ITS) including testing and non testing approaches, using relevance, reliability and uncertainty criteria;
• testing the framework on case studies.

Several expert meetings were already conducted as part of WP4 which included dedicated sessions to specifically address potential impacts on human health risk assessment regulation and socio-economics.

 

EDF has been involved in more than 40 European projects (e.g. FP6 2-FUN, ERICA), and non FP-European projects (e.g. AMORE).