The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released Guiding Principles and Key Elements for Establishing a Weight of Evidence for Chemical Assessment in October 2019 which describes universal guiding principles for developing systematic approaches to weight of evidence (WoE) for chemical evaluations.

Vireo Advisors is collaborating with Health Canada and two European Horizon2020 projects to coordinate two back-to-back workshops at the OECD: “Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathway (NanoAOP) Development for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Categorization” (NanoAOP Workshop), to be held 11 September 2019, and a stakeholder workshop organized by the EU H2020 Project Physiologically Anchored Tools for Realistic nanOmateriaL hazard aSsessment (PATROLS ), to be held 12 September 2019.

The 2018 Nanotox Conference 19-21 September is being held in Neuss, Germany, with sessions  examining the current status of hazard and exposure assessment for emerging nanomaterials.

The OECD announced on June 25 the adoption of new and updated Test Guidelines (TG) for chemical safety testing.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a report entitled Alternative Testing Strategies in Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials:  Current State of Knowledge and Research Needs to Advance Their Use.