A scientific, non-profit association established in 1978 “to provide a scientific forum through which the extensive specialist expertise in the European chemical industry could be harnessed to research, review, assess and publish studies on the ecotoxicology and toxicology of chemicals,” ECETOC is “financed by 50 of the leading companies with interests in the manufacture and use of chemicals.”

Member companies include:

• 3M
• Akzo Nobel
• AstraZeneca
• ATOFINA
• Ausimont
• BASF Aktiengesellschaft
• Bayer
• Borax
• Borealis
• BP Amoco Chemicals
• Ciba Specialty Chemicals
• Clariant
• Coca-Cola
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Degussa
• Dow Corning
• Dow Europe
• DSM
• DuPont De Nemours
• ExxonMobil Chemical
• F. Hoffman-La Roche
• Henkel
• ICI
• Janssen Pharmaceutica
• L’Oréal
• Lyondell Chemical
• Merck
• Monsanto
• Norsk Hydro
• Novartis
• Novozymes
• Perstorp
• Petresa
• Polimeri S.r.l.
• Procter & Gamble
• Reckitt Benckiser
• Reckitt Benckiser Italia
• Repsol Quimica
• Rhodia
• Rohm & Haas
• Shell Chemicals
• Solvay
• Statoil
• Syngenta
• Unilever
• Wacker-Chemie

(http://www.ecetoc.org/pages/MemberList.cfm; accessed 7/10/02)