CAAT-EU Information Day, 28-Oct-2010
CAAT-EU Information Day
28 October 2010
The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing in Europe (CAAT-Europe) has announced the first in a series of high level Information Days. The October 28 event will focus on the status quo of REACH, the US Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) reauthorization, and the implementation of the US National Research Council strategy for Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century.
CAAT-EU operates as a joint venture of the University of Konstanz, Germany and CAAT at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, to provide first-hand, state-of-the-art information about alternative methods and their use in regulatory requirements.
Speakers will include representatives from:
- NRC (The National Research Council US)/ NAS (National Academy for Science, US): Panel Tox-21c
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): ToxCast program
- American Chemistry Council (ACC)
- BASF
- The John Hopkins Bloomberg Public School of Health.
Downloads:
The complete program will be available for viewing mid-September on the CAAT website http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/leist/caat-europe and http://caat.jhsph.edu/
Location:
Festsaal-Steigenberger Inselhotel
Auf der Insel 1
78462 Konstanz, Germany
Time: 10:00 am - 16:00 pm
To register, please contact caat-eu@uni-konstanz.de