The OECD webinars on Emerging Science provide an opportunity to chemical safety professionals to learn and discuss new methodologies developed by research globally. These new approaches might make their way into future regulatory applications, but a dialogue will help scientists understand the needs of the regulatory community, and allow regulators to ask the relevant questions early on.
Webinar Series on Emerging Science to Improve Chemical Safety
The OECD webinar series focuses on emerging science, gathering global experts to exchange best practices among regulatory authorities and the scientific community. It serves as a platform to explore and discuss innovative methodologies in chemical safety.
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Building trust in the scientific evidence base supporting chemical risk assessment (AOP Framework)
This webinar, co-organised with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, discussed the recently published report on Addressing evidence needs in chemicals policy and regulation by the JRC.
The webinar was an opportunity to hear the main findings of the report and a set of actionable recommendations, including how knowledge management systems can be designed in a user-centric fashion to address current challenges, with the Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) framework being a prominent example.
Good Licensing Practices of protected elements in Test Guidelines
On 30 April 2020, the OECD hosted a webinar on Good Licensing Practices of protected elements in Test Guidelines. The OECD Test Guidelines Programme is increasingly integrating innovative methodologies for the safety testing of chemicals into regulatory standards. Ensuring transparency, broad and and fair access to these innovative methods are important principles. Recently, the OECD published Guiding Principles for Good Licensing Practices of protected elements in Test Guidelines. This webinar explained those principles and showed how they can be useful in your work. If you are from the community of test developers, this webinar video recording is for you!
New Methodologies on Liver Models for Induction, Clearance and Toxicity
On 11 February 2019, the OECD organised a webinar to learn and discuss new methodologies on liver models for induction, clearance and toxicity. The speakers presented the benefits compared to existing methods in place, the types of chemicals tested, the results obtained, the transferability and economic aspects for routine testing, and any known limitation to the technologies and their applications.
