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Workshop on Mixture toxicity - Register deadline: September 20th 2010
2010-06-29
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[ 22-24 September 2010, at SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium ]REGISTER HERE for mixture toxicity workshop !
This Workshop is organized by the Unit Biosphere Impact Studies (BIS) from the belgian Nuclear research Centre (SCK-CEN).
It is organized in the framework of the IUR-IAEA Practical Arrangements for the exchange and dissemination of information within the EMRAS II project, Working Group 6 on Biota dose effects modelling - Multiple stressors.
The local organising comitee consists of Nele Horemans, Nathalie Vanhoudt, Hildegarde Vandenhove.
IUR offers financial support to a few selected scientists to attend.
Objectives of the Workshop
Contaminants never occur in isolation, yet legislation is still largely based on effects of single compounds. In addition, more and more data are becoming available that suggests that compounds can exert effects in organisms when present in mixtures in concentration ranges at which the single contaminants do not induce effects.
The examination of combined exposures, which corresponds much more realistically to exposure conditions in the environment than the analysis of single substances, entails major methodological difficulties in the experimentation and evaluation procedure.
This Workshop intends to introduce you to some of the approaches and methodologies used in studying and predicting mixture toxicity effects. The Workshop will be a mixture of lectures, exercises and open discussions.
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