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IARC Classifies Red Meat as a Probably Carcinogenic to Humans and Processed Meat as Carcinogenic to Humans An International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) Working Group of 22 experts met October 6-13, 2015, in Lyon, France, to discuss the potential carcinogenicity of red meat (e.g., beef, veal, lamb) and processed meat (e.g., hot dogs, ham, sausage).. Based on its evaluation, the Working Group classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans read more…

ToxStrategies will be attending the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America’s 36th Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah next week (November 1-5, 2015). Alea T. Goodmanson and Kirby H. Tyndall are looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new people. Stop by and visit them at booth #1001! For more information on the scientific program or other meeting details, please click here.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) recently published a technical report reviewing recent developments in mixtures assessment methodologies and their applications in the hazard assessments. The report reviews the use of emerging technologies, including in vitro assays, omics approaches, SAR and QSAR modeling, read-across, and PBTK modeling in evaluating mixtures toxicity. Survey results are also included detailing how experts use these novel methodologies to evaluate chemical mixtures. The report concludes that there is high potential for read more…

The National Toxicology Program (NTC) recently released the Handbook for Preparing Report on Carcinogens (RoC) Mongraphs, a science-based public health document. The Handbook provides instructions for conducting the cancer hazard evaluation and preparing the RoC monographs. It is a living document and may be refined to incorporate new systematic review tools, to harmonize with systematic review methods used by other scientists, and from lessons learned from conducting cancer hazard evaluations on candidate substances with more read more…

On August 31, 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) final preventive control rules for both human and animal food had been submitted to the Federal Register for publication. The final rules were required by the federal district court in Oakland to be submitted by August 30, 2015 based on a 2014 settlement with the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health. read more…

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently published its monograph on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs). Based on their evaluation, the IARC Working Group classified PCBs as Group 1 (carcinogenic to humans). Dioxin-like PCBs were also placed into Group 1 have a peek at this website. PBBs were categorized as Group 2A compounds (probably carcinogenic to humans). ToxStrategies scientists have extensive experience working with PCBs. Our work has included evaluating the read more…

In accordance with their Endocrine Disruption Screening Program (EDSP), the EPA recently released the Tier 1 screening data for various pesticide chemicals. In these Tier 1 assays, 52 pesticide chemicals were tested to determine their potential to interact with hormone pathways. Of the 52 chemicals evaluated, there was no evidence for potential interaction with any of the endocrine pathways tested for 20 chemicals. Fourteen chemicals showed potential interaction with one or more pathways, but EPA read more…

On July 23, the US House of Representatives passed bill H.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 that would preempt state laws regulating the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foods.  The vote was 275- 150. Representative, Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), introduced the bill with the goal of creating a uniform, national system to govern the premarket review and labeling of genetically engineered foods (foods from or containing read more…