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 Review of the Arsenic Chronic Cancer Assessment for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, State of Texas - August, 2010
As a follow-up to last year’s review of the noncancer and acute toxicity assessments for arsenic, TERA is organizing a letter peer review to evaluate the chronic cancer portions of the ESL Development Support Document (DSD) for arsenic compounds developed by the TCEQ.......Learn More
Project Spotlight:
Dose-Response Approaches for Nuclear Receptor-Mediated Modes of Action Workshop - September 2010
This workshop will explore the development of dose-response approaches to nuclear receptor-mediated liver cancer, including biologically-based dose-response (BBDR) models for key events leading to apical outcomes for tumor promoters. The presence of threshold effects for non-cancer and (in appropriate cases) cancer has been the dominant paradigm for the practice of risk assessment. ......Learn More