COT Workshops
Each year, COT organizes one or more public workshops (see shaded box) to discuss advances or difficult problems in toxicology and risk assessment. The topics of recent workshops have included risk assessment of neurotoxicants, genotoxicants, and reproductive and developmental toxicants; substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons (hydrochlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluoro-carbons); and advances in toxicological pathology. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, COT held a colloquium on the history and future of toxicological risk assessment on December 4-5, 1997, at the NAS Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The five sessions included presentations on historical and recent developments in toxicological testing, mechanistic considerations in toxicological risk assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization, and the use of toxicological data in risk management.
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Examples of COT Workshops Mutagenicity Risk Assessment (July 10, 1988) Chemical Water Quality and Monitoring Requirements of Reclaimed Water for Space Station Freedom (November 27-29, 1989) Carcinogenic Mixtures (January 18-19, 1990) Developmental Abnormalities (January 9-10, 1991) Pharmacokinetics: Defining Dosimetry for Risk Assessment (March 4-5, 1992) Role of Toxicologic Pathology in Safety Assessment (February 9-10, 1993) Risk Assessment Based on Neurobehavioral Changes (January 18-19, 1995) Toxicity of Alternatives to Chlorofluorocarbons (March 7-8, 1996) Colloquium on Scientific Advances and the Future of Toxicologic Risk Assessment: 50th Anniversary of the NRC's Committee on Toxicology (December 4-5, 1997) |
