Registration is now open for the next two food safety and toxicology colloquia produced cooperatively by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and the US Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Appplied Nutrition (FDA CFSAN). Registrants can participate onsite at the US FDA Wiley Auditorium, College Park, Maryland, or by viewing the webcast; each colloquium's scheduled from 8:00 am–12:30 pm ET.
February 23, 2015: Application of ADME/PK Studies to Improve Safety Assessment for Foods and Cosmetics, chaired by Harvey Clewell, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
April 14, 2015: Immunotoxicology in Food and Ingredient Safety Assessment: Approaches and Case Studies chaired by Dori Germolec, Toxicology Branch, National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
More details about each colloquium can be found at the links above. These colloquia are scientific training that is high quality, cutting-edge, future-oriented toxicological science to provide a well-grounded, foundation to inform the work of US FDA employees and others. These events are not a public forum for discussion of toxicology regulatory issues.
The first colloquium Complexities in Evaluating Human Clinical and Observational Data for Ingredient Safety Assessment: Partially Hydrogenated Oils As a Case Study occurred on November 7, 2014, and was chaired by Martin Ronis, University of Arkansas Children‘s Nutrition Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. The live captions and presentations for three of the speakers are now available; the recording of the event will be posted to the SOT website soon. Pictured far left: Speaker Michael Dourson chats with SOT 2014–2015 President Norbert E. Kaminski and Allen Rudman of the Organizing Committee; second photo: Dennis Keefe, US FDA, listens to Martin Ronis, chair of first colloquium.