Case Study Summary Report – Summary of WP6 of Mistra SafeChem

The ambition of Mistra SafeChem has been to make an impact on the quality of life for humans and animals as well as ensuring a thriving environment. To be able to fulfil part of the programme goals, Work Package 6 (WP6) was developed for coordinating work with specific case studies performed within academia and industry. The specific objects of WP6 were: i) To coordinate the interaction between the case studies and the various tools and methods generated in WP3, WP4 and WP5; ii) To transform industrial challenges into cases fit for the programme and evaluation of the tools; and iii) To formulate the results from the case studies into general conclusions with respect to efficiency and reliability of the toolbox. The included case studies have been chosen to enable assessment of various aspects of the molecules, processes, by-products from processes and/or non-target screening of recipients. The tools used by all collaborators have been developed within the Mistra SafeChem programme and belong to three overarching groups of tools. The first group represents tools for Hazard and exposure screening, comprising of Chemical screening, In vitro prediction, and In silico prediction. The second group of tools belong to Process design and optimization tools, subcategorised into Catalysis/biocatalysis, Electrochemical methods, Textile recycling, and Valorisation of forest residues. The third and last group of tools were the one for Life cycle based assessment. This group have mainly three different sustainability tools with the following grouping: Life cycle assessment, Chemical footprint assessment, and Life cycle based alternative assessment. As a result of WP6 all tools have been compiled into a toolbox, which is published on the Mistra SafeChem webpage (www.mistrasafechem.se).