Gift Details

TRAVEL: Plane ticket-- $1056.30; Hotel (2 nights)--$541.00; Meals, local transportation, and misc expenses (3 days)-- $225.00; for travel to London, UK from 10/12/ 10 to 10/15/10. The World Health Organization convened an international meeting to develop a global ``umbrella plan'' for activities on Mode of Action of chemicals, including development of case studies and the establishment of a Mode of Action Database and education program. This strategic planning meeting also responded to recommendations of an ECETOC/ILSI/HESI Workshop on Using Mode of Action Information to Improve Regulatory Decision Making on 2-3 November 2009, London. Issues discussed at the meeting include, 1) for the umbrella plan--key new activities, relationship with existing activities, implementing bodies, resources, and 2) for the database--the purpose of the database, general content and broad criteria for inclusion of data, the ``home'' of the database and its possible management arrangements, resources and relationship to any other relevant data holdings. Dr. Vicki Dellarco was invited to co-chair the planning group. She has been involved in the use of mode of action information in human health risk assessment for over 15 years within the EPA, and help lead the development of the WHO/ IPCS Mode of Action Framework which is now being used worldwide in the hazard assessment of chemicals. Rec'd--10/ 12/2010-10/15/2010 Est. Value--$1,822.30.

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