Engaging outside experts to review risk assessments and methods can help insure high quality and scientifically-defensible work products and results. Government agencies, NGOs and industry recognize the value added by expert peer review and TERA is a world leader in providing independent expert review for all types of risk assessment documents and activities. TERA provides a variety of opportunities and services to engage expert peers, including in-person panel meetings, webcasts and webinars; letter reviews; workshops to develop risk values or methods; and in-house technical reviews.
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Independent Peer Review of Revisions to Guidelines to Develop Effects Screening Levels, Reference Values, and Unit Risk Factors (RG-442) by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
TERA is organizing a letter peer review to new guidelines that will be entitled “Guidelines to Develop Inhalation and Oral Cancer and Non-Cancer Toxicity Factors.” The revised guidelines will contain significant revisions since 2006 including changes to the procedures for developing odor –based ESLs, consideration of the differences between children and adults when assessing risk, identification of health-based effect levels, ........Learn More
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ITERate – Quarterly Mini-Review Meetings: Communicate your risk value through ITER!
ITERate – TERA’s ongoing initiative to upload published risk values onto the ITER database. The ITER Review Program (ITERate) was developed to promote collaboration between all stakeholders to help solve the problems government, state agencies, and industry face in identifying and selecting appropriate chemical risk values for application in human health risk assessment......Learn More