ERASM, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, was created in 1991 as a response of the involved industries to the ongoing risk assessment activities in Europe.

This joint platform of the European detergent and surfactants producers represented by their associations A.I.S.E (Association Internationale de la Savonnerie, de la Détergence et des Produits d’Entretien) and CESIO (Comité Européen des Agents Surface et de leurs Intermédiaires Organiques), initiates and co-ordinates joint industry activities for improving and enlarging the basis for and the knowledge about the risk assessment of detergent-based surfactants in environmental compartments.

The activities of ERASM encompass a number of projects managed by industry experts and where appropriate in collaboration with other interested parties.