Development and assessment of new risk assessment methods
Title of Research: 12_PT01-02-3

Development of a user-friendly risk assessment tool for voluntary
environmental risk assessment and management by business
operators
Principal Investigator: Bin-Le Lin, Chief Senior Researcher, Research Institute of Science for
Safety and Sustainability, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. 16-1
Onogawa Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, 305-8569 Japan. (tel) +81-29861 8844, (e-mail)binle-lin@aist.go.jp
Collaborators: Masashi Kamo (same as above). (tel) +81-29861 8029, (e-mail)masashi-kamo@aist.go.jp; Wataru Naito (same as above). (tel) +81-29861 8299, (e-mail)w-naito@aist.go.jp
Summary of Research: There is an urgent social need for the implementation of accurate andsimple risk assessment and management of chemicals toward 2020 WSSD gogal. In order toaddress this need, during this project term we mainly focused on the improvement andenhancement of the English-and-Japanese versions of AIST-MeRAM 1.0 (released in Dec, 2014),
implementation of function of risk management options based on the risk assessment results,expansion of the reliable databases. These achievements will be released as updated versions of“AIST-MeRAM 2.0” (English and Japanese) in May 2016. At the same time, in order to support theAsian strategy of JCIA and the promotion of Chemical Substances Control Law in Asian countries,
a series of dissemination activities were performed such as 1) organize FTI-JCIA MeRAM
workshop and joint workshop of the AIST and the Thailand National Laboratory, 2) support theworkshop of bilateral cooperation of METI and the Thailand Ministry of Industry, 3) cooperate withJCIA member company to investigate the assessment of multiple substances by using MeRAM
and to present on academic meeting. In addition to these achievements, research proposal basedon agreements from plural meeting was developed and we have successfully proposed a win-win
collaboration JCIA-LRI-project between ToxCalc and MeRAM.
Timeline: From March 2015 to February 2016
Topics: None
Publications: 1) (Presentation at Domestic Meeting) The 24th Environmental Chemistry Debate(24-26 June 2015), Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, “Ecological risk assessment ofsurfactant by using AIST-MeRAM: case study of LAS”.
2) (Invited Speech at Domestic Workshop) YNU International Symposium 2015 on Management ofWater Environment, “Dissemination of methodologies of chemical risk assessment andmanagement to Asia: Introduction of AIST-MeRAM”. 3rd Aug 2015, Yokohama
3) (Paper Publication) JETOC Information B, 15-21 August 2015, “Introduction of a general tool forchemical ecological risk assessment and management: AIST-MeRAM”.
4) (Presentation at International Meeting) The 9th AIST-TISTR-NSTDA Conference, AIST
Waterfront, Tokyo Japan, 28th April 2015. “AIST-MeRAM: a user-friendly software for ecologicalrisk assessment and management of chemicals”.
5) (Presentation at METI-DIW Workshop) The 4th Workshop on Japan-Thailand Bilateral
Cooperation on Chemical Management, 3rd -4th June 2015, DIW Office, Bangkok, Thailand.
6) (Organization of MeRAM Workshop at Thailand) 'MeRAM' Multi-purpose Ecological Risk
Assessment and Management Tool Workshop. Queen Sirikit National Convention Center(QSNCC), Bangkok, Thailand. 8-9 July 2015..
7) (Research Outcome Exhibition) AIST Techno Bridge Fare, 22-23 October 2015, Tsukuba. To
support an efficient environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals by"AIST-MeRAM" with the increase in the complexity.
8) (Presentation at International Meeting) The SETAC North America 36th Annual Meeting, Salt
Lake City, United States. 1st-5th November 2015. Oral presentation: An all-in-one ecological risk
assessment (ERA) tool: AIST-MeRAM.
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