Register for Upcoming Webinar on Reducing Animal Testing
Released January 8, 2025
Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), PETA Science Consortium International (PSCI), the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) on Wed., Jan. 29, 2025, at 11 a.m. EST 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, NAM-Based Strategies for Systemic Toxicity Assessment, is the seventh webinar in that series. This webinar will share a vision for chemical safety assessment without animal testing.
The presenters for this webinar are:
- Dr. Katie Paul Friedman from the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure. This presentation will focus on the development of NAMs-based toxicity values for chemicals that affect the entire body or multiple organs, and how they compare to the traditional animal-based model. The presentation will include recent work on this topic within the Accelerating the Pace of Chemical Risk Assessment (APCRA) initiative, an international effort to promote collaboration and dialogue on the use of NAMs in regulatory decision making.
- Elisabet Berggren from the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Systems Toxicology Unit. This presentation asks, “How would we do chemical safety assessments if we started from scratch?” The presentation will reflect on challenges and possible ways to do chemical risk assessments without any animal testing based on today’s existing knowledge and expertise.
Learn more about EPA’s activities to reduce animal testing under FIFRA, TSCA and across the agency.
To register and view more details about the webinar, visit https://www.thepsci.eu/epicwebinars.