Only four weeks until Smithers Viscient’s Environmental Science Forum, being held at the Holiday Inn, Dusseldorf Germany from 4-6 June 2013.
Leatherhead, 7 May 2013: Smithers Viscient will host a major new European forum on environmental science in June 2013. The event comprises two separate conferences Endocrine Disruptors (4-5 June) and Advances in Metabolism & Environmental Degradation Science (5-6 June) and is expected to attract the world’s leading thinkers in toxicology, ecotoxicology and environmental fate and metabolism testing.
The conferences bring together international policy makers, researchers and industry representatives primarily from the agrochemical, industrial chemical and pharmaceutical sectors and offer an important pathway to consolidate these relationships, share novel testing procedures and understand new regulatory requirements in the European Union.
With growing concerns that endocrine-related diseases and disorders are on the rise, Smithers Viscient’s third Endocrine Disruptors conference dedicated to the safety evaluation of chemicals for human health and the environment could not be better timed. The one day conference provides practical applications of hazard-based risk assessments for endocrine disrupting chemicals through a number of in depth case studies including those of Dow, BASF and AstraZeneca, as well as the opportunity to hear crucial policy updates and benchmark compliance strategies. A half day workshop on 5 June, ‘Implementing EU Requirements on Chemicals’, from leading legal firm McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP covers everything from the legislative process and lobbying activities to the applicability of national laws and has been carefully devised to equally assist manufacturers and downstream users of chemicals.
Advances in Metabolism & Environmental Degradation Science covers topics ranging from the use of LCMS-MS analysis and chiral chromatography to accurately identify the increasingly lower levels of metabolites now required in fate studies to the use of absolute stereochemistry to find metabolites that are optical isomers. The conference boasts updates on Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 and OECD 309 guidelines on aquatic mineralization as well as computational analysis and prediction of xenobiotic metabolism and an examination of the fate and effect assessment of manufactured nanomaterials in the environment.
Speaking about the Advances in Metabolism & Environmental Degradation Science event Smithers Viscient’s President, Dr Volker Bornemann said “New guidelines and regulatory requirements are continuously evolving and changing our regulatory science landscape. Most recently, the new EC Regulation 1107/2009 went into effect, new test guidelines for fish metabolism are being developed and the OECD harmonized a whole set of residue and metabolism test guidelines. Despite its central importance and complexity, this topic has traditionally been covered only on the side lines of large scientific symposia or in small, dedicated workshops. We hope to create a new forum where regulatory scientists from the crop protection industry, contract research organizations, regulatory authorities and other institutions can come together, share their knowledge and experience, and learn about state-of-the-art study design, procedures and technology applications.”
For more information visit www.environmentalscience-forum.com
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Smithers
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