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The Australasian College of
Toxicology & Risk Assessment
Toxicology & Risk Assessment

15th Annual Scientific Meeting and Continuing Education Days
29 August to 1 September 2023
Parmelia Hilton Perth

Annual Scientific Meeting
Themed Chemicals and Cancer: What’s New in Toxicology and Risk Assessment?, this conference will focus on the current state of knowledge of chemical carcinogenicity including new and emerging risk assessment tools.
Presentation themes include:
- An overview of chemical-induced carcinogenesis, the widely accepted paradigm of carcinogenesis
- Regulation and risk assessment of carcinogens and relevance to Australian regulatory and advisory agencies
- How chemical carcinogenicity is determined and how this information is used to set regulatory guidelines and standards
- Australian regulatory and advisory agencies rely primarily on IARC cancer classifications to assess risk. The IARC cancer classification system and process are explained
- Perspectives on elimination of animal assays in assessment of carcinogenicity
- Integrating computational tools into carcinogenicity assessments
- How risks are managed in the workplace and for public health
- The IARC model for assessing chemical carcinogenicity is critically appraised
- The USEPA and EFSA systems for determining and classifying carcinogenic pesticides
- Review and discussion of the carcinogenic potential of PFAS and nitrates
- Approaches for quantitative assessment of skin cancer risk from soil contamination: a benzo(a)pyrene case study.
Continuing Education Days
This year for the first time, ACTRA will be offering two Continuing Education days and sessions will include:
- How to prepare a witness statement and prepare for giving evidence in court and State Administrative Tribunals
- General principles of environmental health risk assessments with case studies in water quality, air quality and contaminated sites
- A full day workshop on the science of risk assessment as envisioned by the RISK21 collaboration. The goals of this workshop are to:
- communicate the overarching principles of the RISK21 approach
- provide an introduction to the roadmap and visualisation matrix; and
- to conduct hands-on case studies to educate participants on the application of the RISK21 roadmap in risk assessment.
More information on the program and how to register