Good read-across practices workshop: Making it work for you!

A CAAT-Europe & EU-ToxRisk & CEFIC-LRI workshop

Time: February 26th, 2016

Venue: Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport Hotel, Brussel, Belgium

Outline: This technical workshop intends to lay down common good Read-Across practices and present current initiatives among stakeholders to the benefit of past and future REACH registrants.

Presentation of the good read-across practices, by Prof. Hartung, CAAT Europe

Main authors of the document, Thomas Hartung, Nick Ball and Mark Cronin will walk the audience through the good read-across (RA) practices report.

This document aims to facilitate writing and building RA based on the ECHA RAAF document written for the evaluators and released summer 2015.

The document will be sent per email beginning of February.

The document will be discussed with the audience for feedback and commentaries.

Presentation of a questionnaire for read-across users, Dr. David Demortain, INRA

Presentation of the CEFIC-LRI AMBIT tool, Dr. Volker KOCH, CLARIANT

Presentation of read-across case studies for skin sensitization, Dr Enrico MOMBELLI, INERIS - FRANCOPA

OECD Project on the Development of IATA – Considerations from Read-Across Case Studies, Dr Yuki SAKURATANI, OECD

Panel Discussion: Dr. Norbert FEDTKE (ECHA), Jarlarth HYNES (HSI) and all the other speakers.