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OECD activities of Working Party on Exposure Assessment – WPEA
29/07/2021 Italian experts: Lionello Attias, Raffaella Cresti, Istituto Superiore di Sanità The Working Party on Exposure Assessment (hereafter the “WPEA”) assists the Chemicals and Biotechnology Committee (hereafter the “Committee”) in facilitating and supporting its work on the exposure assessment of chemicals and chemical products, focusing on sharing and developing exposure assessment-related information, methodologies and tools. The WPEA activit...Continue
Nanomaterials
29/07/2021 The OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) was established in 2006 when engineered manufactured nanomaterials (EMNs) started to be used in a variety of commercial applications. Several concerns were raised both by scientific community and authorities on how they should be addressed in the regulatory context and, especially, how they should be assessed in order to identify potential risks for human health and environment. Hence,...Continue
WPRPW: Working Party on Resources, Productivity and Waste
29/07/2021 Member, for ISS, of the Italian national Delegation: Federica Tommasi Italian National Institute of Health, Department of Environment and Health - DAMSA The WPRPW OECD (Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste) subgroup of the OECD's EPOC (Environment Policy Committee) developing policies that incentivise and encourage waste prevention, minimisation and recycling. Current work focuses on promoting the transition towards a circular econom...Continue
OECD QSAR Toolbox Management Group
09/11/2021 Contact persons for Italy: Chiara Laura Battistelli, Cecilia Bossa e Olga Tcheremenskaia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Dipartimento di Ambiente e Salute The OECD QSAR Toolbox is a stand-alone free software application developed by Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC, Burgas, Bulgaria) under the coordination of OECD and ECHA (www.qsartoolbox.org). It was thought with the purpose of facilitating practical application of the quantitative str...Continue
Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)
29/07/2021 Structure-activity relationship (SAR) and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models, collectively called (Q)SARs, are methods that can be used to predict the physicochemical, biological, and environmental fate properties of compounds from their chemical structure. (Q)SAR approaches include a variety of computerized and non-computerized tools and approaches, whose basic principle is that toxicity is a function of chemical s...Continue
Good practices in computational methods
14/10/2021 Italian representatives: Paolo Roazzi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Health Technology Assessment Expert in IT Security and Good Laboratory Practices Eugenio Carrani, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Presidency Secretariat, Expert in IT Security and Good Laboratory Practices Olga Tcheremenskaia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Environment and Health Department. Expert in Computational Methods The OECD Secretariat, in the e-mail sent on 8 December 202...Continue
Novel foods and feeds
29/07/2021 Italian representative: Marzia De Giacomo, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Food safety, nutrition and veterinary public health The OECD Task Force on "Novel Food and Feed Safety" was established in 1999, with the objective of promoting international regulatory harmonisation in the risk assessment and safety of biotechnology products. ISS was involved in the Task Force from the beginning and has continued to be so ever since. This body was renamed...Continue
QSAR Assessment Framework Project
14/10/2021 Contact persons for Italy: Chiara Laura Battistelli, Cecilia Bossa and Olga Tcheremenskaia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Environment and Health Department ISS has co-coordinated with the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) the “QSAR Assessment Framework" project (2021-2023), promoted by the OECD Working Party on Hazard Assessment (WPHA). The expert group led by ISS and ECHA has included about 40 representatives from different OECD member coun...Continue
The Environment Health and Safety Programme of OECD
27/10/2022 The OECD Member Countries, many partner countries and other stakeholders (including industry and NGOs) work together in the frame of the Environment Health and Safety Programme (EHS) to develop and co-ordinate activities on chemical safety and biosafety on an international basis. Objectives of the Programme to assist OECD Member countries' efforts to protect human health and the environment through improving chemical safety and biosafety to ...Continue
Per-and poly- fluorinated Chemicals (PFAS)
29/07/2021 Italian representative: Gianfranco Brambilla, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Food safety, nutrition and veterinary public health Background: Per-and poly- fluorinated Chemicals (PFAS) OECD / UNEP Global Expert Group, started its activities in the 2012, and currently enrols OECD members of academia, governments, as well as representatives of other international organizations. The PFAS OECD/UNEP Group represents the response to the Int...Continue
About us
27/07/2021 Italian Members of the OCSE Working Groups Maria Alessandrelli, Gabriele Aquilina, Leonello Attias, Lucilla Baldassarri, Raffaella Cresti, Maristella Rubbiani (Chemicals, Cosmetics and Consumer Production National Centre) Chiara Laura Battistelli, Cecilia Bossa, Mario Carere, Emma Di Consiglio, Ines Lacchetti, Francesca Marcon, Patrizia Pelosi, Olga Tcheremenskaia, Federica Tommasi (Department of Environment and Health) Gianfranco Brambilla,...Continue
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Published 29/10/2019 -
Edited 10/02/2020
