Ecotoxicology Services

Environmental sciences simplifying regulatory compliance for complex substances

Expert guidance, tailored strategies, and innovative approaches to ensure market access, reduce risk, and minimise animal testing.

What We Do

Delivering robust hazard assessments and sustainable solutions for complex substances.

The Sciences team helps chemical manufacturers, formulators, and consortia demonstrate the environmental safety of their substances using tailored experimental and non-testing approaches. By combining ecotoxicological expertise with regulatory insight, we deliver scientifically robust hazard assessments that support compliance, sustainability, and reduced animal testing.

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The Challenges

Complex and difficult-to-test substances (e.g., UVCBs).

Traditional test guidelines are designed for simple, single-constituent substances, making UVCBs and multi-constituent materials with difficult chemical properties technically challenging to assess and test.

Rapidly evolving regulations.

Regulations are constantly changing, making it difficult for companies to maintain compliance and anticipate new requirements.

Balancing data requirements with reducing animal testing.

Regulators need sufficient data to evaluate environmental hazards and risks, while there is increasing pressure to minimise vertebrate ecotoxicity testing.

The Solution

Integrated, science-led solutions to address complex regulatory and data challenges.

Tailored Strategies for Complex Substances

Bespoke testing and assessment strategies for difficult to test substances including UVCBs and multi-constituent substances, developed in collaboration with CROs and supported through early regulatory engagement to ensure acceptance of non-standard approaches.

Scientifically Robust Grouping & Read-Across

Expert application of grouping and read-across methodologies to ensure hazard and risk assessments are representative, defensible and fit for regulatory decision-making.

Proactive Regulatory Guidance

Ongoing monitoring of regulatory developments, and active participation in key scientific and regulatory forums, ensures we are able help clients anticipate change and maintain compliance.

Data Gap Solutions That Reduce Animal Testing

Strategic use of non-animal testing approaches, including NAMs. QSARs, read-across, and grouping to efficiently address data gaps, minimise vertebrate testing and deliver high-confidence environmental assessments.

The Result

Faster, smarter, and cost-effective compliance.

Partnering with Penman Consulting enables faster market access, reduced costs, minimal duplication of studies, and lower animal testing, while ensuring dossiers, hazard assessments, and testing strategies meet regulatory requirements. Your teams can focus on innovation, production, and growth with confidence.

Our Services

Dossier Management

We prepare and maintain fully compliant dossiers, staying ahead of regulatory changes and support registrants in all areas of regulatory correspondence to reduce the risk of market restrictions.

Why Choose Us?

Expert, tailored, and resilient regulatory support.

Regulatory Resilience & Market Access

A single, centralised partnership ensures your substances remain compliant across evolving regulatory frameworks, with proactive dossier management to reduce the risk of restrictions and protect market access.

Independent, Multidisciplinary Expertise

Access a dedicated team of specialists across chemistry, ecotoxicology, environmental fate and behaviour, exposure and risk assessment, delivering independent scientific insight and regulatory confidence at every stage.

Tailored, Substance-Specific Strategies

Customised assessment and testing approaches for individual substances, UVCBs and substance groups ensure robust, relevant and defensible compliance solutions.

Our Environmental Experts

Expert insight into chemical fate, toxicity, and environmental risk.

Our Environmental Science team combines deep expertise in chemical fate, behaviour, and ecotoxicity with regulatory insight.

We specialise in complex substances, including UVCBs, and use both traditional testing and modern approaches such as NAMs, QSARs, read-across and weight of evidence to provide robust, regulator-ready assessments that minimise animal testing and support compliant, science-driven decision-making.

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