VITO’s multidisciplinary team provides integrated chemical safety assessment of your professional activities and guidance for sustainable alternatives. Are you considering the development of new molecules than we help you already during the development phase with assessing and drawing up the requirements for REACH so that you can make the right choices and can save time and money before the market introduction.

Computational models & expert analysis

VITO is your partner in toxicology services and hands-on support

Read across and QSAR

  • Physicochemistry: SPARC, EPI-Suite
  • OECD (Q)SAR Toolbox
  • Environment : VEGA, BIOWIN, ECOSAR, CASE Ultra, TOPKAT
  • Human endpoints: ToxTree, VEGA, TTC

Exposure modelling

  • Consumers: ConsEXPO , AISE REACT
  • Environment : EUSES
  • Workers: ECETOC-TRA, Stoffenmanager, ART, EMKG-EXPO, Riskofderm, S-Risk, EN-forc and other expert models

Risk assessment

Socio-economic analysis

Publications

Methodological approaches to compile and validate a food composition database for methyl-group carriers in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study
Year: 
2020
Journal: 
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Van Puyvelde, H; Versele, V; De Backer, M; Casagrande, C; Nicolas, G; Clasen, JL; Julian, C; Skeie, G; Chirlaque, MD; Mahamat-Saleh, Y; Amiano, P; Pauwels, S; Godderis, L; Gunter, MJ; Van Herck, K; Huybrechts, I
Repeatability and Reproducibility of the RTgill-W1 Cell Line Assay for Predicting Fish Acute Toxicity
Year: 
2019
Journal: 
TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Fischer, M; Belanger, SE; Berckmans, P; Bernhard, MJ; Blaha, L; Schmid, DEC; Dyer, SD; Haupt, T; Hermens, JLM; Hultman, MT; Laue, H; Lillicrap, A; Mlnarikova, M; Natsch, A; Novak, J; Sinnige, TL; Tollefsen, KE; von Niederhausern, V; Witters, H; Zupanic, A
Gold nanoparticles affect the antioxidant status in selected normal human cells
Year: 
2019
Journal: 
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE
Daems, N; Penninckx, S; Nelissen, I; Van Hoecke, K; Cardinaels, T; Baatout, S; Michiels, C; Lucas, S; Aerts, A
Recommendation on Test Readiness Criteria for New Approach Methods in Toxicology: Exemplified for Developmental Neurotoxicity (vol 35, pg 306, 2018)
Year: 
2019
Journal: 
ALTEX-ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
Bal-Price, A; Hogberg, HT; Crofton, KM; Daneshian, M; FitzGerald, RE; Fritsche, E; Heinonen, T; Bennekou, SH; Klima, S; Piersma, AH; Sachana, M; Shafer, TJ; Terron, A; Monnet-Tschudi, F; Vivian, B; Waldmann, T; Westerink, RHS; Wilks, MF; Witters, H; Zuric
Xenopus laevis as a Bioindicator of Endocrine Disruptors in the Region of Central Chile
Year: 
2019
Journal: 
ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY
Rojas-Hucks, S; Gutleb, AC; Gonzalez, CM; Contal, S; Mehennaoui, K; Jacobs, A; Witters, HE; Pulgar, J

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