Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach for Safer Chemicals Research
Upcoming and Ongoing EPA Safer Chemicals Events
EPA hosts workshops, webinars and other events to ensure our research is valid, relevant and applicable to policy decisions about chemical safety. One area we have been particularly active in engaging stakeholders is in our high-throughput toxicology and exposure efforts. These efforts are using alternative chemical testing methods to accelerate the pace of chemical evaluations, reduce reliance on animal testing, and address the significant lack of health and environmental data on the thousands of chemicals found in commonly used products.
EPA offers numerous opportunities for stakeholders to engage including webinars, a series of materials describing this research (webpages, videos), proactive scientific media outreach, workshops, establishing research collaborations worldwide and actively requesting feedback from stakeholders.
- EPA Conference on the State of Science on Development and Use of NAMs for Chemical Safety Testing: In 2019, EPA committed to developing and implementing a work plan to reduce the use of animals in chemical testing and to prioritize ongoing efforts, and to direct existing resources, toward additional activities that will demonstrate measurable impacts in the reduction of animal testing while ensuring protection of human health and the environment. To report progress on these activities, EPA hosts regular conferences to provide updates and solicit input from interested stakeholders.
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New Approach Methods Training: Get the latest on EPA NAMs training opportunities and resources.
- Accelerating the Pace of Chemical Risk Assessment (APCRA): EPA collaborates with regulatory agencies worldwide to promote dialogue on the scientific and regulatory needs for the application and acceptance of New Approach Methods in regulatory decision making.
- Toxicology in the 21st Century (Tox21): EPA is working with the National Institute of Health (NIH), including National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Food and Drug Administration to develop better toxicity assessment methods to quickly and efficiently test whether chemical compounds have the potential to disrupt processes in the human body that may lead to negative health effects.
- Computational Toxicology Communities of Practice Monthly Webinar: EPA's Computational Toxicology Communities of Practice is composed of hundreds of stakeholders from over 50 public and private sector organizations (ranging from EPA, other federal agencies, industry, academic institutions, professional societies, nongovernmental organizations, environmental non-profit groups, state environmental agencies and more) who have an interest in using advances in computational toxicology and exposure science to evaluate the safety of chemicals.
Other Opportunities
We also actively participate in external conferences and meetings to promote EPA's chemical safety research through presentations, workshops, platform discussions, and exhibit booths.
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