 |
Home

Conferences

Beverages

Food

Biocides/Chemicals

Plant Protection Products

Detergents/Cleaning Products

Service

Akademie Fresenius

Press


|
 |
International Fresenius Conference
Risk Assessment for Biocides
For professionals working in toxicology, ecotoxicology, environmental fate, product safety and regulatory affairs fields
05.04.2011 to 06.04.2011 in Cologne/Germany
Highlights
Human Health Risk Assessment
- Introduction into human health exposure and risk assessment
- Worker exposure assessment
- Consumer exposure assessment
- Biocide exposure assessments for the US EPA, beyond Tier 1
(Default) assessments
- Risk assessment for alcohol-based disinfectants
Environmental Risk Assessment
- Introduction to environmental risk assessment for biocides
- Application of the FOCUS model for biocides and their harmonisation
- Revision of the OECD ESD for wood preservatives
- Risk assessment for insecticides, repellents, antifouling paints and disinfectants
- Research project on combination of leaching test methods
- Refinement of risk assessment for biocides in exterior façades
- Consideration of mixture toxicity - a challenge for the authorisation
of biocidal products
- Thoughts from a biocides producer on regulatory perspective
on cumulative risk assessment
Team of experts
Anette Bitsch Fraunhofer ITEM | Torsten Groth Lanxess | Isabel Günther German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | James Hingston Chemicals Regulation Directorate | Dagmar Holthenrich German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) | Maura Kasper German Federal Environment Agency | Anja Kehrer German Federal Environment Agency | Michael Klein Fraunhofer IME | Stefan Konietzny Merck | Didier Leroy Troy | Paul Mason Cambridge Environmental Assessments | Volker Mostert Knoell Consult | James J. Olson S.C. Johnson | Oliver Price Unilever | Heike Schimmelpfennig SCC | Leon van der Wal Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
|
 |





|