Friday, January 27, 2012

Second WHO Meeting on Global Collaboration in Chemical Risk Assessment

Second WHO Meeting on Global Collaboration in Chemical Risk Assessment

Date: 29-30 March 2012, in conjunction with workshops to be held 28 March

Venue: WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn, Germany

Background

In March 2010, the World Health Organization convened a Meeting on Strengthening Global Collaboration in Chemical Risk Assessment to discuss common interests, activities and needs in the field of chemical risk assessment and help shape future activities of the risk assessment community internationally. Participants identified a number of key issues and priority actions to address these needs, such as in the areas of:

capacity building/training,

chemical risk assessments/sharing knowledge,

risk assessment methodology and

research.

Meeting participants also discussed means of strengthening collaboration globally to support chemical risk assessment, including the recommended option of establishing a WHO International Risk Assessment Network.

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