Chloe Cragg

British Crop Protection Council Congress 2018

The BCPC Congress 2018 will consider emerging regulatory and environmental policy direction, and examine how this can stimulate and support beneficial changes in farming practice, to provide benefits for both food production and public good.


Find out why Fera is at the forefront of bee ecotoxicology testing

Assistant Bee Ecotoxicologist at Fera Science, Emma Wright, will be discussing our recent advances in bee ecotoxicology including our adult honey bee chronic toxicity studies and why our in-vitro honey bee larval toxicity tests are consistently achieving high emergence rates in the controls (22 day end point). Click here for more information on our bee ecotoxicology services.


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Join us at Crop Innovations and Regulations

Join us on stand 14 at the Crop Innovations and Regulations Event, 

Barcelona, Spain

More than just a chemical regulation conference; it is the meeting place for regulatory, registration, human health, toxicology and product stewardship professionals across the chemical industry looking to create new business opportunities and hear the most complete and up-to-date coverage of European regulations on chemicals. CIR is as much a networking event as a scientific exchange of ideas which draws people together who wish to make a difference. 

As part of this year's event Fera will be updating our fellow colleagues and peers on the E-Flows facility based at Sand Hutton in York.

Dr Rachel Benstead, Senior Aquatic Ecotoxicologist at Fera Science, will be presenting her abstract on the E-Flows mesocosm on Wednesday 5th September at 11.15am. She will be focusing on, the configuration and capabilities of the E-Flows mesocosm, a proposal for validating the exposure scenarios and finally she will be discussing what is useful and relevant for regulation.

Dr Andrew McEwen, Strategic Business Development Manager at Fera Science, is also confirmed to speak on 6th September at 3pm and will be presenting his abstract titled My Family and Other Animals: Comparative Requirements for Human and Animal Metabolism Studies. 


E-Flows is The Edge-of-Field Waterbody Safety Assessment Facility - The First Fully Flow-through Field Scale Mesocosm



mesocosm - outdoor experimental system of ponds and streams

CHAPs Edge-of-field Waterbody Safety Assessment Facility (E-Flows), supported by Innovate UK and developed, designed, managed & operated by Fera is to be a state of the art mesocosm providing a realistic test bed for higher tier regulatory risk assessment. The E-Flows mesocosm will be the first fully flow-through mesocosm exposure facility in Europe giving access to multiple fully flow-through streams at a field scale, which can safely receive compounds at the rates predicted to occur in the environment by models. The mesocosm will have the capability to perform controlled pulse doses for accurate realistic-to-worst-case exposures. It will have sufficient replication to reduce variation and produce reportable data against minimum detectable differences for statistical robustness and will be continuously supplied with high grade ground water, set in a high diversity wetland to ensure sufficient diversity and allow eco-recovery.



Take a look at our latest Mesocosm photos

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EuroTox 2018

The EUROTOX 2018 Scientific Programme Committee has prepared an exciting scientific programme, highlighting the latest research results and trends in the field of toxicology. The theme reflects a willingness and enthusiasm to offer a really innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme. Offering attractive lectures and sessions with well-balanced inputs from academia, industry and regulators.

The theme for 2018 is “Toxicology Out of the Box”. It reflects a willingness and enthusiasm to offer a really innovative, forward-looking and imaginative scientific programme.

Andrew McEwen will be attending on behalf of Fera and will also be presenting the poster titled: "My Family and Other Animals: Comparative Requirements for Human and Animal Metabolism Studies.” The poster (No. P19-12) will be allocated under the ‘Regulatory Toxicology’ section of poster viewing 2 on Tuesday 4th September.


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Metaldehyde Conference 2018

It is estimated that losses of £45m – £100m per annum could occur in agriculture if molluscicides were not used.


Slugs are damaging pests of UK crops and control is achieved using molluscicidal pellets. Current pellets are inefficient, polluting and improvements to their design are urgently required. The molluscicide metaldehyde is frequently detected in surface water at concentrations greater than predicted during the regulatory approval process, and it presents a challenge for water treatment.


The Metaldehyde Conference aim is to better understand these multi-faceted challenges to industry, farmers, regulators and the water industry, and to discuss the science required to give better and safer slug control.

Confirmed speakers include:

•  Ian Boyd (Defra) - "Science underlying pesticides policy"
•  John Haley (UKWIR) - "Metaldehyde - 10 years of progress"
•  Steve Ellis (ADAS) - "How much slug damage can crops tolerate"
•  Richard Reynolds (Anglia Water) - "Managing Metaldehyde:Anglia Waters experience"
•  Tom Bradshaw (NFU) - "An integrated approach to slug control"
•  James Moir (York University) - "Selection and characterisation of diverse metaldehyde-degrading bacteria reveal a novel shared degradation pathway"
•  Liana King (Newcastle University) - "Bioengineering metaldehyde removal"
•  Alexandra Cooke (Severn Trent Water) - "Farm to Tap: Can catchment management deliver metaldehyde water quality improvements?"
•  Carmel Ramwell (Fera Science & IAFRI) - "Environmental fate of molluscicides"
•  Colin Brown (York University) - "
Presence of metaldehyde in rainfall: evidence and interpretation"
•  James Shucksmith (University of Sheffield) - "Forecasting surface water metaldehyde levels in drinking water catchments following rainfall events"
•  Gordon Port (Newcastle University) - "The problem with pellets: A slug’s eye view"
•  Andrew Benniston (IAFRI) - "Binding and detection of Metaldehyde in water"
•  David Werner - TBC
•  Frazer Black (CHAP) - TBC


Attendance at the conference is free.

Space will be available for sponsor exhibits. If you and your organisation wish to discuss sponsorship for this event please contact [email protected]

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