Conference Agenda

Session

Session 3.09: Ecotox/Toxicity Metrics for Portfolio Assessment in Chemicals

Time:

Friday, 12/Sept/2025:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Tomas Vilhelm Rydberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden
Session Chair: Peter Rudolf Hans Saling, BASF SE, Germany

Presentations

(15 minutes_S)

Navigating Sustainability in Life Science: A Holistic, Data-Driven Approach to Portfolio Management

Vera Boehm, Dennis Go

Merck Life Science KGaA, Germany

(15 minutes)

Toxicity assessment in industrial chemicals management: A Safe and Sustainable-by-Design Case Study on Electronic Components and Electric Vehicle Parts containing Phosphinate Flame Retardants

Daniel Maga¹, Venkat Aryan¹, Adrian Beard², Tomas Rydberg³, Gerard Kwant⁴

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany; ²Clariant P&C GmbH Hürth, Business Unit Additives, Germany; ³IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden; ⁴Envalior Corp., Sustainability Department, Geleen, Netherlands

(15 minutes)

Integration of Risk Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment in the Context of Safe and Sustainable by Design Era

Martina Menegaldo¹, Tomas Rydberg², Stathis Reppas², Maria Rachele Sesterzi¹, Rosella Telaretti Leggieri², Alessandra Fiorucci³, Pernilla Andersson², Håkan Stripple², Anna-Karin Hellström⁴, Emma Strömberg², Elisa Giubilato⁵, Danail Hristozov⁵, Alex Zabeo⁵, Lisa Pizzol⁵, Elena Semenzin¹

¹Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Scientific Campus, via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre, VE, Italy; ²IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden; ³Bologna University, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, BO, Italy; ⁴Research Institutes of Sweden, SE-431 53, Mölndal, Sweden; ⁵GreenDecision s.r.l., Cannaregio 5904, 30121, Venice, VE, Italy

(15 minutes)

Job creation and occupational human toxicity in LCSA of recycled PVC for the construction sector

Nirvana Angela Marting Vidaurre¹, Thomas Schaubroeck¹, Thomas Gibon¹, Tomas Rydberg²

¹Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg; ²IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden

(15 minutes)

Addressing Eco-toxicity impacts in LCA approaches with the new ProScale E approach for chemicals

Peter Rudolf Hans Saling¹, Martin Klatt¹, Hannah Wagner¹, Richard van Gelder¹, Massimo Collotta²

¹BASF SE, Germany; ²Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

(15 minutes)

A Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) Approach Rooted in Multiobjective Optimization: Case Study on Bioplastics and Fossil Plastics

Akshat Sudheshwar, Kealie Vogel, Claudia Som, Roland Hischier, Bernd Nowack

Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Technology and Society Laboratory, Ler-chenfeldstrasse 5, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland