Something which came to my attention the other day (though it was published in February) is that EFSA has published a call for tender for “Scientific services to support EFSA systematic reviews in the field of plant health risk assessment”. For anyone not intimately familiar with the processes by which the European agencies procure services, […]
I have been looking forward to this for a long time: the publication of NTP / OHAT systematic review draft protocols for the association between BPA exposure and obesity, and PFOA/PFOS exposure and immunotoxicity. I am particularly interested in how they propose managing the different streams of evidence from toxicological research (a major difference between […]
The US National Toxicology Programme has announced the release date of its case-study protocols, scheduled April 9, to test its planned approach for introducing systematic review techniques into its processes for evaluating chemical safety. There is an article about it in this month’s Environmental Health Perspectives. And there is this, from the NTP website (note the download […]
An on-going point of discussion among colleagues is the appropriate composition of expert panels and whether or not experts with clear and obvious conflicts of interest should be permitted to stand on them. While this is important, it is also important to be clear that ensuring a group of people gives you a balanced opinion […]