Register for Upcoming Webinar on Reducing Animal Testing
Released May 8, 2024
Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), PETA Science Consortium International (PSCI), Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) and California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 11 a.m. EDT for a webinar on the use of new approach methodologies (NAMs), or alternative methods to testing on vertebrate animals for chemical risk assessments.
In August 2023, EPA announced it would host a quarterly webinar series in collaboration with PSCI, IIVS and CDPR on the use of NAMs. This webinar, Advancing Eye Irritation Assessment with Non-Animal Methods for Industrial Chemicals and Agrochemicals: Progress at the US EPA, is the fourth webinar in that series.
The presenters for this webinar are:
- Lindsay O’Dell from EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP). Ms. O’Dell will present on an OPP collaboration with the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) and PSCI. Their project evaluated the performance of two proposed test methods, known as defined approaches, for assessing the eye irritation hazards of pesticide formulations. The defined approaches and the results of the retrospective testing from 29 pesticide formulations were published and peer-reviewed in Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology.
- Renee Beardslee from EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). Dr. Beardslee will speak about the EPA New Chemical Program’s decision framework for identifying eye irritation or corrosion hazards for new chemicals reviewed under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The framework – also developed in collaboration with NICEATM, PSCI and others – provides a standard approach for the EPA New Chemicals Program to use leading to improved consistency across final risk assessments as well as improved transparency. This supports EPA’s mandate under TSCA to promote the development and implementation of alternative test methods and strategies that can provide information on chemical hazards without animal testing.
Learn more about EPA’s activities to reduce animal testing both under TSCA and across the agency.
To register and view more details about the webinar, visit https://www.thepsci.eu/epicwebinars/.