The passage of the Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act in 2016 had a profound impact on the US new chemicals programme. This training course will highlight important changes to that programme and provide technical training on the risk assessment process. Over the course of six modules, this course builds upon training material originally developed under the US EPA Sustainable Futures programme.
Topics to be covered include EPA and OECD approaches to:
- determining important physico-chemical properties of a substance, along with methods to identify environmental attributes of concern;
- creating a screening level hazard assessment for human health and primary environmental media with a focus on principles for analogue analysis and read across to fill data gaps; and
- modelling industrial operations including manufacturing, processing, commercial and consumer-use activities, and the potential environmental release and human exposure from those activities.
