General Chemical Hazards Risk Assessment

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Other General Chemical Hazards Risk Assessment Resources

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety which was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 8 to 12 October 2007. The meeting concluded that ensuring safe feed is an important component of efforts to reduce and prevent food safety hazards and indicated several potential measures to ensure safe feed. Agenda of the meeting, list of participants, experts' resumes and list of documents are included as appendices. The report is being translated in French and Spanish. Printed copies may be requested from: Daniela.Battaglia@fao.org. (more) Publication Year: 2008	Feb 26, 2008
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Approaches for the Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and Supporting Data in Risk Assessment (External Review Draft 2005) Draft report on the evaluation and use of PBPK models in human health risk assessment. Appendices include "Algorithms for predicting chemical-specific parameters for PBPK models," "List of publications relevant to PBPK modeling of environmental chemicals and its use," and "Partition coefficients and metabolic rate constants for PBPK modeling of environmental." Comments are requested. The public comment period has been extended in 70 FR 48950. (more) Deadline: Friday, October 14, 2005 Publication Month: June 2005	Aug 17, 2005
	Yoe, Charles	Aspartame Risk Assessment Food Safety Analysis Exercise Annotated tutorial that provides an introduction to food safety assessment.	Jan 29, 2004
	National Center for Computational Toxicology, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Bibliographic Information on EPA's Computational Toxicology Research Programs 2000-2004 Bibliography of publications related to EPA's computational toxicology research. Categories of publications include "Improve Linkages in the Source-to-Outcome Paradigm," "Provide Predictive Models for Hazard Identification," and "Enhance Quantitative Risk Assessment". (more) Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2006	Feb 17, 2006
	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	Chemicals Hazard/Risk Assessment Access to publications and other resources related to the hazard and risk assessment of chemicals.	Apr 25, 2005
	Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (non-food)/Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment/Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and th	Committees on Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT, COM, COC): Joint Statement on the Use of Toxicogenomics in Toxicology Statement regarding the use of toxicogenomics in toxicological risk assessment. Publication Month: December 2004	Jan 13, 2005
	Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment/Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment/Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environme	Committees on Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment: Joint Statement on a Symposium Held by the Three Committees on the Use of Genomics and Proteomics in Toxicology Statement describing discussion and conclusions from a symposium on the use of genomics and proteomics in toxicological risk assessment. (more) Event Date: Monday, October 8, 2001 Publication Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2002	Nov 11, 2004
	Advisory Forum, European Food Safety Authority	EFSA Advisory Forum Event Berlin: Abstracts and presentations from this public event on topics related to the risk assessment process. Presentations include "Future perspectives in risk assessment: Key challenges and opportunities"/Jouve, Jean-Louis; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Feron, Victor J.; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Silano, Vittorio; "UK review of risks and benefits of fish consumption"/Benford, Diane; "Position of the French Committee of AFSSA on a risk/benefit analysis of GMOs"/Schwartz, Maxime; "Risk-benefit assessment of micronutrients - folic acid"/Flynn, Albert; and "Risk-benefit evaluation lessons for risk management and communication"/Renn, Ortwin. (more) Event Dates: Monday, November 8, 2004 - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Publication Date: Friday, November 12, 2004	Aug 6, 2004
	Tornqvist, Margareta; Ehrenberg, Lars	Estimation of Cancer Risk Caused by Environmental Chemicals Based on In Vivo Dose Measurement This report discusses a model for estimating cancer risks from genotoxic chemicals based on measurement of dose. Access to full text requires subscription or purchase. (more) Publication Year: 2001	May 29, 2003
	Smith, Maurice	Food Safety in Europe (FOSIE): Risk Assessment of Chemicals in Food and Diet: Overall Introduction This report discusses current methods for risk assessment of chemicals in food and describes an EU Concerted Action to establish a multidisciplinary European network to examine and further develop methodologies for food safety risk assessment. Subscription or purchase is required to access full text. (more) Publication Month: February 2002	Jul 23, 2002
	Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment	Guidance on a Strategy for the Risk Assessment of Chemical Carcinogens Guidance on an approach to risk assessment for genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens. Publication Month: September 2004	Nov 10, 2004
	Risk Assessment Forum, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment This page provides access to the 2003 Draft Final Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment and draft Supplemental Guidance for Assessing Cancer Susceptibility from Early-Life Exposure to Carcinogens. The guidelines serve to guide risk assessment development and use at EPA. The final guidelines are available at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=116283. (more) Publication Year: 2003	Aug 5, 2003
	Risk Assessment Forum, Environmental Protection Agency	Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment and Supplemental Guidance for Assessing Susceptibility from Early-Life Exposure to Carcinogens Guidelines for assessing cancer risks from environmental agents, including a supplemental guidance that considers issues associated with assessing cancer risks from early-life exposures. Related fact sheets about the guidelines are also provided. (more) Publication Month: March 2005	Mar 31, 2005
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Human Health Risk Exposure Model This tool uses exposure concentrations to calculate doses and risks. The equations for performing this analysis are also available for different exposure scenarios. Exposure through consumption of fish can be found in the RECREATIONAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section, and exposure through the consumption of homegrown produce can be found in the RESIDENTIAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	Birnbaum, Linda, et al.	Integrated Risk Assessment Report on integrated risk assessment, which considers risk to human health, biota, and the environment in one risk assessment process. Includes a framework for integrating health and ecological risk assessment and several case studies. (more) Publication Month: December 2001	Jun 25, 2003
	International Programme on Chemical Safety	International Programme on Chemical Safety WHO website of the IPCS. Includes access to publications, notices of upcoming events, and information on chemicals assessment, chemicals in food (including safety and risk assessment), and more. (more)	Jul 5, 2004
	The Lifeline Group	LifeLine Group, Inc. Non-profit corporation that specializes in the development of tools for characterizing exposure to and risks from toxic materials. The website includes software applications and downloads, information about their software, risk assessments performed using their software, and publications. (more)	Jun 11, 2003
	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	OECD’s Database on Chemical Risk Assessment Models Database of information on models for predicting health effects, environmental effects, exposure potential, or risks from chemicals. The database can be searched or browsed by country or property/effect (including ingestion or ingestion of beef and dairy products as routes of exposure and intake of chemicals in food as type of exposure). (more)	Apr 4, 2005
	Scientific Committee, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the Scientific Committee on a Request from EFSA Related to A Harmonised Approach for Risk Assessment of Substances Which are both Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Opinion adopted on October 18, 2005 regarding the use of a margin of exposure approach to assessing risk from substances that are both genotoxic and carcinogenic. (more) Deadline: Monday, November 21, 2005 Publication Date: Thursday, October 27, 2005	Nov 21, 2005
	Ruden, Christina	Principles and Practices of Health Risk Assessment under Current EU Regulations Article discussing the European Union risk assessment process for chemicals and related principles and issues. Case studies that compare risk assessments performed for trichloroethylene and acrylamide and associated expert and public consensus on each chemical's carcinogenicity are also presented. Access to the full text from this site may require subscription or purchase. (more) Deadline: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Publication Month: February 2006	Feb 15, 2006
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Project to Update the Principles and Methods for the Assessment of Chemicals in Food Information about this project to develop a guide to principles and practices for the risk assessment of chemicals in food. (more)	Jun 25, 2003
	Rocco, Jim, Eric Nichols, and Lesley Hay Wilson	Risk Assessment Based on ASTM Consultant's Training Workshop Presentation on the risk assessment process for contaminants. Includes discussion of exposure pathway evaluation, how to determine risk, toxicity assessment (including dose-response, how to determine cancer effects, and sources of toxicity information), exposure assessment (including estimation of intake rate, example intake equations, and example exposure factors), risk characterization (including quantifying non-carcinogenic effects and cancer risks, calculating RBSL, and estimation of risk), and cumulative risk adjustment. Exercises are provided to practice these calculations. (more) Publication Date: Monday, June 8, 1998	Aug 30, 2002
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Safety Concerns as a Result of Fish Consumption in the Tsunami Affected Regions Memo regarding the generally false rumors that fish in the areas hit by the recent tsunami are unsafe to eat. It is noted, however, that damage to water utilities could potentially cause contamination of fishing areas. A press release version of the memo, with additional links, can be found here. (more) Publication Date: Friday, January 14, 2005	Jan 18, 2005
	Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment/Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment	Statement on Joint COC and COM Meeting 9 June 2005: Use of Target Organ Mutagenicity Data in Carcinogen Risk Assessment Statement on a meeting to discuss the use of target organ mutagenicity studies in carcinogen risk assessment. Deadline: Friday, January 6, 2006 Event Date: Thursday, June 9, 2005 Publication Month: October 2005	Jan 6, 2006
	Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment	TERA Staff Publications Citations to publications related to noncancer risk assessment, cancer risk assessment, chemical-specific assessment, exposure assessment, mixtures risk assessment, metabolism, mutagenicity, alternatives to animal testing, respiratory toxicology, physical hazards, information resources and risk assessment tools, databases, commentaries, and TERA reports. Links are provided to many of the documents. (more)	May 29, 2003
	Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment	Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment: TERA Nonprofit organization that works for the use of toxicology data in risk assessment. The website includes resources for risk assessors, the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) database, information on Verifiable Estimates for Risk Assessment (VERA) and related projects, publications listings, research project information, and more. (more)	May 29, 2003
	Chen, James J., et al.	Using Dose Addition to Estimate Cumulative Risks from Exposures to Multiple Chemicals This paper presents a procedure to estimate cumulative risk from multiple chemicals by using the dose-response function of the mixture through dose addition. This procedure is compared to the hazard index, point-of-departure index, and toxicity equivalence factor methods. Subscription is required to access the full text. (more) Publication Month: August 2001	Jun 13, 2003
	The International Programme on Chemical Safety, WHO/ILO/UNEP	The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard This document sets out a classification system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based on acute risk to human health. It lists common technical grade pesticides and recommended classifications together with a listing of active ingredients believed to be obsolete or discontinued for use as pesticides. (more) Publication Year: 2005	Feb 29, 2008

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