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RIFM director in demand: Daniel T. Salvito, Ph.D., director of environmental sciences at Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, has been asked to join European Center for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals' Scientific Committee, as well as to co-chair Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's Bioaccumulation Science Advisory Group, according to March 26 release. Latter group will hold sessions on bioaccumulation and biomagnification in risk assessment, advances in bioaccumulation assessment (in vitro, in silico and in vivo bioaccumulation modeling), and the tissue residue approach for metals and organics at conferences in Warsaw, Poland and Sydney, Australia this year; BSAG also will meet in Tampa, Florida, RIFM notes. Salvito came to RIFM in 1999 and has since "developed the RIFM environmental program from an early effort to one of global recognition and industry leadership," according to release. Director's current research interests include "the aquatic and terrestrial fate of organic chemicals," RIFM says...
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