APPLICATION OF NON-ANIMAL METHODS AND CONCEPTS IN FOOD RISK ASSESSMENT
This session is supported by ILSI Europe’s Alternatives to Animal Testing (AAT) Task Force, New Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment (CRA) Task Force and Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) Task Force.
Chairs of the Session:
Dr. Isabelle Guelinckx, Scientific Program Director, ILSI Europe, BE
Dr. Helena Kandarova, ERT, ESTIV President, Senior scientist at CEM, SAS, SK
Talk 1: Non-animal methodologies for food safety risk assessment (15 min)
Speaker: Prof. Bas Blaauboer, Utrecht University, NL
Talk 2: Introduction to Thresholds of Toxicological Concern Concept and how in vitro methods and TTC complement each other (15 min)
Speaker: Dr. Heli Hollnagel, Dow Europe, CH
Talk 3: High-Throughput-Screening: Challenges and Opportunities in food safety risk assessment (15 min)
Speaker: Dr. Ans Punt, Wageningen University and Research Institute – RIKILT, NL
Panel discussion with the speakers (10-15 min)