Membership:
BASF Corporation, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont Crop Protection, Monsanto Company, Syngenta Ltd.
Public Participation:
CIIT Centers for Health Research, European Commission, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Germany), Imperial College London, INRA (France), Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Medical College of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Mississippi State University, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, Netherlands), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Universitá di Padua, University of California (Riverside), University of Nottingham, University of Southampton, toXcel International Ltd., Tox Path Inc., US Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Pesticide Programs, National Center for Environmental Assessment, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory), The Weinberg Group Inc.
ACSA Activities:
Four manuscripts which describe the ACSA tiered testing proposal have been published as a “Special Issue” in the journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Volume 36, Issue 1 (January 2006). See the homepage of the ACSA Technical Committee for full citations and PubMed links.
ACSA Outreach:
2003:
• US EPA Science Policy Council Workgroup on Toxicity Testing (Washington, DC)
• US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (Washington, DC)
• OECD Working Group on Pesticides (Paris, France)
• EuroTox meeting (Florence, Italy)
• Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD)
2004:
• Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD)
• ILSI Brasil and ANDEF (a division of CropLife Latin America) (Brazil)
• NAS/NRC Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents (Washington, DC)
• American Bar Association Committee on Pesticides, Chemical Regulation and Right-to-Know (Washington, DC)
2005:
• OECD Side Meeting to Workshop on Advancing Worksharing of Agricultural Pesticide Reviews (Washington, DC)
• US Environmental Protection Agency Science Forum (Washington, DC)
• Life World Watch Center (Japan)
• CropLife America Human Health and Risk Assessment Committee (Washington, DC)
• EUROTOX 2005 Congress (Krakow, Poland)
• National Toxicology Program Laboratory of Experimental Pathology (Research Triangle Park, NC)
• Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American College of Toxicology (Williamsburg, VA)
• International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology Workshop (Baltimore, MD)
• HESI Workshop on Framework Approaches to Risk Assessment (Nice, France)