Happy Earth Week! While climate change seemed to be the dominant theme for this week’s news, some other science was able to squeeze through the Earth-loving clutter.
SOT Members in the News
Nancy Beck authored an editorial for the American Chemistry Council (ACC) about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Human Health Risk Assessment framework. The piece says that the new framework is a step in the right direction and goes on to outline some of the elements that the ACC is especially pleased to find in the guidance document.
NIEHS’ Environmental Factor featured a synopsis of a March 5 seminar featuring Richard Peterson, this year’s SOT Distinguished Toxicology Scholar Award winner. While visiting the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Dr. Peterson discussed his pioneering research on dioxin and dioxin-like chemicals.
On AltTox.org, Kamin J. Johnson and Edward W. Carney present ideas for new strategies for developmental toxicity assessment based on adverse outcome pathways. In the piece, they write, “The toxicology community now sees before it an opportunity to reshape developmental toxicology and produce a regulatory testing strategy that potentially generates immediate mechanistic information with limited animal usage in a higher throughput manner.”
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