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. Video recordings of our webinars are made available online afterwards.

 

WATCH THE WEBINAR REPLAY  ON Building trust in the scientific evidence base supporting chemical risk assessment and the role of the AOP Framework

On 16 March 2022, the OECD co-organised a webinar with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, to discuss the recently published report on Addressing evidence needs in chemicals policy and regulation by the JRC.  There are deep divisions between key stakeholders in chemical regulation regarding the best methods for obtaining data and evidence for informing policy in general and decisions on particular substances. This report summarises the key insights of a study on stakeholder perceptions of the main challenges facing chemicals regulation, and of alternative approaches to conducting toxicological studies. The report offers a proposal for overcoming mistrust between stakeholders, building on the AOP Framework to more fully support ‘transparency plus’, which supplements access to data and evidence with shared understanding.   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.

Speakers and presentations:

• Introduction: Magda Sachana from the OECD Environment Directorate
• Trust and Transparency Plus in chemicals regulation: Annamaria Carusi from Interchange Research | Presentation
• Building trust through improved tools and practice in the life cycle of mechanistic data: Antonio Franco from the EC Joint Research Centre | Presentation
• The role of the AOP Framework in knowledge management and trust building: Jason O’Brien from the National Wildlife Research Centre, Canada | Presentation

 

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- Anne Gourmelon of the OECD Environment Directorate briefly introduced the presenters and scope of the webinar | Presentation

- Karolina Gutt-Mostowy of the European Commision Joint Research Centre in Brussels presented the fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms for licenses | Presentation

- Sharon Bahia from the European Collection of Authenticated Cell Cultures of Public Health England discussed the role of biological resources banks and collection in maintaining traceability of protected material | Presentation. 

 

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