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Peer Consultation on Relationship Between PAC Profile and Toxicity of Petroleum Substances

What:    Peer Consultation
When:   October 8-9, 2007
Where: 
Northern Kentucky University Metropolitan Education and Training Services (METS), Erlanger, Kentucky (close to the Cincinnati Airport)

Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) will convene a peer consultation on a methodology called Quantitative Composition Activity Relationship (QCAR)October 8-9, 2007.  The PAC Analysis Task Group (TG) of the Petroleum HPV Testing Group proposes new methodology to predict the toxicity of untested petroleum substances based on the relationship between polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) profile of petroleum substances and select mammalian toxicity responses.  The TG has named this methodology ‘Quantitative Composition Activity Relationship’ or ‘QCAR.’  The goal of the methodology is to predict dose levels of untested substances that will produce a pre-defined change for selected repeat-dose and developmental toxicity endpoints.  The TG proposes to use these calculated values in place of empirically-derived Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Levels (LOAELs) in partial fulfillment of the TG’s data commitments in the EPA’s High Production Volume (HPV) Chemical Challenge Program.

Meeting Report

 

General Meeting Information and Documentation

Sponsor Documents

Volume 1 - Description on US HPV Program

Volume 2-Investigation into the Relationship between PAC Content & Acute, Repeat-Dose, Development, & Reproductive Tox of Petroleum

 

 

 

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