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