Mini-Symposium: Effects of mixtures explained!?

You are invited for a mini-symposium on effects of mixtures of toxicants in our environment.
Effects of mixtures receive more and more attention and it is now speculated that mixtures effects will be taken up in future legislation, instead of the current practice of evaluating every compound separately.

This symposium will precede the PhD graduation of Jan Baas.

To provide an overview of the current scientific and regulatory status on effects of mixtures we invited some renowned national and international speakers on the subject.

Dr. Hans Løkke from Denmark was the leader of NoMiracle; an EU project on mixtures, in which 38 research groups were involved. He will place mixture effects in a European perspective and will highlight some of the major findings of NoMiracle.
Dr. Leo Posthuma works at RIVM and is involved in the regulations for mixtures in the Netherlands and will highlight some general approaches on how to tackle effects of mixtures.
Joep de Koning will show the pragmatic approach to handle effects of mixtures from the perspective of a Dutch waterboard (responsible for the quality and quantity of the surface waters in one of the most polluted areas from the Netherlands).
Finally Dr Dave Spurgeon will highlight some biological approaches to assess affects of mixtures from an ecotoxicological point of view.

In the afternoon, starting 13:45 hr, Jan Baas will defend his thesis entitled "Effects of mixtures as processes in time, from laboratory experiments to effects in our environment" in the aula of the VU.

If you like to attend this mini-symposium, please send an email to tjalling@bio.vu.nl. Feel free to forward this invitation to others who might be interested.