Mike Comber Consulting

Mike Comber: Mike Comber will be forming a consultancy to support small and medium size enterprises meet their obligations under REACH. The consultancy will be known as “Mike Comber Consulting”. He has experienced product development and registration for specialty chemical companies (while working for ICI/AstraZeneca), was responsible for the world wide registration of drug intermediates (AstraZeneca) and the hazard and exposure assessment of petroleum products (ExxonMobil). His experience in this field and his contacts within industry makes his involvement in the dissemination of the results essential.

Dr. Mike Comber will be involved in Workpackages 2, 4, and 5. He also has an in-depth experience in practical applications of risk assessment methodologies both to human health and environment. He has pub­lished over 30 sci­en­tific papers, and is currently in­volved in two FP6 EU projects, CAESAR and NORMAN. Previously he was a member of the ECETOC task force that developed the TRA tool for screening risk assessments. Within CADASTER, Dr. Comber will serve as the direct intermediate between the CADASTER consortium and industry, specifically CEFIC and ECETOC as well as the evaluation of the ECETOC TRA tool.

Walker J D, Comber M H I, QSARs for Pollution Prevention, Toxicity Screening, Risk Assessment and the World Wide Web - Future Challenges, In : Handbook on Quantitative Structure Activity relationships (QSARs) for Pollution Prevention, Toxicity Screening, Risk Assessment and the World Wide Web. J D Walker (ed), Pensecola, Fl, SETAC Press, In Press

Comber M H I, Walker J D, Watts C, Hermens J, QSARs for predicting potential ecological hazard of organic chemicals for use in risk assessments, Env Tox and Chem., 22, 8, 1822-1828, 2003

Jarworska J S, Comber M, Auer C, Van Leeuwen CJ, Summary of a Workshop on Regulatory Acceptance of (Q)SARs for Human Health and Environmental Endpoints, Environmental Health Perspectives, 111, 1358 - 1360, 2003

Cronin M T D, Jarworska J S, Walker J D, Comber M H I, Watts C D, Worth A P, Use of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships in International Decision Making Frameworks to Predict Ecological Effects and Environmental Fate of Chemical Substances, Environmental Health Perspectives, 111, 1376 - 1390, 2003

Cronin M T D, Jarworska J S, Walker J D, Comber M H I, Watts C D, Worth A P, Use of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships in International Decision Making Frameworks to Predict Health Effects of Chemical Substances, Environmental Health Perspectives, 111, 1391 - 1401, 2003

Verdonk F A M, Boije G, Vandenberghe V, Comber M, De Wolf W, Feijtel T, Holt M, Koch V, Lecloux A, Sibel-Sauer A, Vanrolleghem P A, A rule based screening environmental risk assessment tool derived from EUSES, Chemosphere, 58, 1169-1176, 2005

Howard P, Meylan W, Aronson D, Stiteler W, Tunkel J, Comber M, Parkerton T F, A new biodegradation model specific to petroleum hydrocarbons, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 24, 8, 1847-1860, 2005

Vermeire T, Rikken M, Attias L, Boccardi P, Boeije G, Brooke D, de Bruijn J, Comber M, Dolan B, Fischer S, Heinemeyer G, Kock V, Lijzen J, Muller B, Murray-Smith R, Tadeo J, European union system for the evaluation of substances: the second version, Chemosphere, 59, 473-485, 2005

Feijtel, T., Boeije, G., Comber, M., de Wolf, W., Holt, M., Koch, V., Lecloux, A., and Siebel-Sauer, A. (2005). Editorial: The ECETOC approach to targeted environmental risk assessment. Env. Tox. Chem. 24, 251-252.

Watze de Wolf, Mike Comber, Peter Douben, Sylvia Gimeno, Martin Holt, Marc Léonard, Adam Lillicrap, Dick Sijm, Roger van Egmond, Anne Weisbrod, and Graham Whale, Animal Use Replacement, Reduction and Refinement: Development of an Integrated Testing Strategy for Bioconcentration of Chemicals in Fish, IEAM, 2006 – In press