Center for Advancing Risk Assessment Science & Policy (ARASP)

ACI is participating The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC) Center for Advancing Risk Assessment Science and Policy (ARASP) to promote the development and use of advanced methods and up-to-date scientific knowledge in chemical risk assessments. The ARASP will work to accelerate the development, evaluation and use weight of evidence frameworks, mode of action analysis and quantitative uncertainty methods in chemical risk assessments.

Link: http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_policyissues.asp?CID=2229&DID=9403

Harmonization Project Documents

Read about Harmonization of Approaches to the Assessment of Risk from Exposure to Chemicals

Other Resources:

International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), 2001. Chemical-Specific Adjustment Factors For Interspecies Differences And Human Variability: Guidance Document For Use Of Data In Dose/Concentration–Response Assessment, Harmonization Project Document No. 2, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2005
http://www.inchem.org/documents/harmproj/harmproj/harmproj2.pdf

International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), 2001. Principles for evaluating health risks to reproduction associated with exposure to chemicals, Environmental Health Criteria No. 225, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2001.
http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc225.htm

International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS). 2000. Human exposure assessment, Environmental Health Criteria No. 214, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2000
http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc214.htm

International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS). 1999. Principles for assessment of risks to human health from exposure to chemicals, Environmental Health Criteria No. 210, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999
http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc210.htm