In July 2018, participants from 17 institutions met in Ottawa, Canada. The purpose of the meeting was to review WHO chemical risk assessment methodology guidance and provide recommendations for future activities. The aim was to increase the uptake of WHO methodologies in chemical risk assessments globally and encourage best practices. The meeting discussed a draft overview of several key methodology documents (prepared in response to a suggestion from the 2017 Network Meeting held in Parma, Italy) and the experiences of several institutions were presented.
The WHO Secretariat will follow up on the helpful suggestions from the meeting regarding potential new Network activities and future directions of the WHO and Network Participants in risk assessment methodology development.
Organization of this meeting, which exemplifies the value of global collaboration in advancing chemical risk assessment technologies, was assisted by the Existing Substances Risk Assessment Program of Health Canada, a Network Participant.