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Alliance for Risk Assessment seeking nominations for Beyond Science & Decisions Panel.
Panel members are sought from a diversity of affiliations and areas of expertise, particularly biology/toxicology, risk assessment, and statistical/modeling. Panel members will be chosen by the ARA Steering Committee (http://www.allianceforrisk.org/ARA_Steering_Committee.htm) and will serve for 2-3 years. Please send nominations and a CV Oliver Kroner at Kroner@tera.org by January 26, 2012. The first meeting of the standing panel is envisioned to be held two days in the period of May 21-24th, at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Austin, Texas.
TERA joins the Interstate Technology & Resource Council (ITRC).
TERA has proudly joined the Interstate Technology & Resource Council (ITRC), a state-led coalition working together with industry and stakeholders to achieve regulatory acceptance of environmental technologies. ITRC consists of 50 states, the District of Columbia, multiple federal partners, industry participants, and other stakeholders, cooperating to break down barriers and reduce compliance costs, making it easier to use new technologies, and helping states maximize resources.
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Publications and Presentations
Merury and Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) Paper Accepted for Publication. TERA worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Health on a project regarding the health risks associated with mercury expsoure from CFLs. It as accepted for publications by the Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology journal. The article is entitled “Human Health Risks from Mercury Exposure from Broken Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs).” The article is based on a screening assessment report we conducted for the New Zealand Ministry of Health. It utilized the exposure work done by the State of Maine and applied various risk levels to determine the potential for human health effects in various scenarios. Check back for the full citation of the article.
Michael Dourson participates in group publication on perchlorate. Michael Dourson joined five other esteemed scientists, Gail Charnley, Thomas Cluderay, George Gray, Tom Roberts and Nancy Stoner in publishing a Forum on perchlorate published in The Environmental Forum (www.eli.org).
"The Perchloarte Debate: Is the Chemical Worth Regulating". 2011. The Environmental Forum. Nov/Dec. Vol. 28(6), page 46-53. (pdf)
Scientists from P&G and TERA publish TTC paper. The P&G/TERA Team compiled a large database of reproductive and developmental toxicity data. The data were then analyzed to calculate Thresholds of Toxicological Concern (TTC values). The calculated TTC values were compared to existing TTC values. Based on the results of this comparison, we confirmed that the current TTC values can be applied to the reproductive and developmental endpoints.
Correlation of chemical structure with reproductive and developmental toxicity as it relates to the use of the threshold of toxicological concern Original Research Article
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Available online 10 October 2011
Michael C. Laufersweiler, Bernard Gadagbui, Irene M. Baskerville-Abraham, Andrew Maier, Alison Willis, Anthony R. Scialli, Gregory J. Carr, Susan P. Felter, Karen Blackburn, George Daston
Staff Activities
Just Joined TERA!! Dr. Ray York is now a TERA Fellow. Dr. York is a board-certified toxicologist with almost 30 years of experience in the field of toxicology, specializing in reproductive and developmental toxicology. He has served as a study director on over 700 GLP safety evaluation studies, and published over a 100 manuscripts, review articles, book chapters and abstracts, and has been an invited speaker at international conferences. Dr. York earned his Ph.D. in Toxicology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Kettering Laboratory and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Research Foundation in Cincinnati, in the area of developmental toxicology.