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.
Project Spotlight:
Independent Peer Consultation for TBAC Assessment
Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) will convene an expert peer consultation panel to review a screening level risk assessment of Tertiary-Butyl Acetate (TBAC). The assessment was prepared by Lyondell Basell Industries (the primary manufacturer of TBAC) under a voluntary agreement between Lyondell and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Lyondell had petitioned EPA to exempt TBAC from regulation as a volatile organic compound (VOC) based on studies demonstrating its low photochemical reactivity....Learn More
Project Spotlight:
Peer Consultation to review High Production Volume (HPV) Submissions
The HPV peer consultation pilot project will provide expert review of high production volume (HPV) chemical hazard robust study summaries and test plans prepared by industry sponsors under the HPV and Extended HPV (EHPV) Programs. Under these programs, companies and consortia voluntarily sponsor chemicals that are manufactured or imported in the U.S. in quantities of 1 million pounds or more annually.....Learn More