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FDA, Society of Toxicology to hold seminars on food safety challenges

October 24, 2014

FDA, Society of Toxicology to hold seminars on food safety challenges FDA has partnered with the Society of Toxicology to provide a series of training sessions focusing on high quality, cutting-edge, future-oriented toxicological science to address challenges in food and ingredient safety.

Held on November 7 in College Park, MD, the four half-day training sessions are open to the public and will offer participants an opportunity to interact with leading world experts in toxicology. The sessions are not intended to offer a public forum to discuss or make recommendations to the agency on toxicology regulatory issues.

According to FDA, the seminars are intended to provide a foundation to inform the work of FDA-Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) employees.

The sessions will focus on: complexities in evaluating human clinical and observational data for ingredient safety assessments, using partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) as a case study; toxicological studies versus computational modeling of ADME/PK; special topics in toxicological endpoints; and risk assessment and risk management.

More information as well as on-site and webcast registration can be found here.

Jeremy Gerrard was Food Engineering's Digital/Online Editor. He is a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in journalism. His previous work experience includes years spent as a reporter with the Daily Local News out of Chester County, PA. In addition to writing feature articles for Food Engineering, Jeremy covered the Dry Processing, Field Reports and People and Industry news sections.