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Alliance for Risk Assessment: Enhancing Collaboration in Risk Evaluation

The Alliance for Risk Assessment improves communication, transparency in product development, harmonization in risk assessments, and shared costs and resources. Stakeholder collaboration, risk document development, training, and certification are key aspects. The Alliance provides a database for sharing risk assessments, involving over 5500 projects from 13 countries. Contact collaborators for more information. Key stakeholders include federal agencies, industry, and non-profit organizations. The Alliance aims to avoid duplication of efforts, support public health goals, and harmonize risk values and methods. Diverse groups fund the Alliance for its credibility and resource sharing benefits.

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Alliance for Risk Assessment: Enhancing Collaboration in Risk Evaluation

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  1. Guiding Principles of the Alliance • Improved communication among groups • Transparency in development of products • Harmonization and consistency in risk assessments • Shared costs and human resources

  2. Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) Stakeholder Process Alliance “Menu” Options States, Fed. Agencies, Public Interests, Industry Steering Committee ARA Manage-ment Team Risk Document Development Initiation of Risk Issue Training and Certification Non-profit Collaborators Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) Risk Communication Document Draft Risk Research And Tools Peer Reviews Peer Review & Consult ITER Release to Public

  3. RiskIERisk Information Exchangewww.allianceforrisk.org/RiskIE.htm • A Database to Communicate In-Progress Risk & Toxicity Assessments • Includes over 5500 projects being conducted by more than 27 organizations representing 13 countries • Scheduled to join NLM’s TOXNET in 2008

  4. http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

  5. For More Information For more information Phil Wexler wexlerp@mail.nih.gov www.nlm.nih.gov Chuck Tomlijanovic chuck-t@ctc.com http://www.ctc.com/ Andrew Rak andrew.rak@noblis.org www.noblis.org Oliver Kroner kroner@tera.org www.tera.org Please visit www.allianceforrisk.org Or contact the collaborators:

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  7. ARA Steering Committee A balance of Federal, State, and Tribal governments, Environmental NGOS and non-profits, and Academia. • Anita Meyer, United States Army Corps of Engineers • Barbara Harper, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation • Bette Meek, University of Ottawa • Edward Ohanian, United States Environmental Protection Agency • Michael Dourson, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) • Michael Honeycutt, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) • Phil Wexler, National Library of Medicine (NLM) • Ruthann Rudel, Silent Spring • William Hayes, State of Indiana

  8. ARA Fund & Work Flow Steering Committee ARA Process Federal Agencies, Industry ARA Manage TEam Funded Projects States, Tribes, Environmental NGOs RiskIE Unfunded Projects ARA Non-Profit Collaborators ITER

  9. ITER on TOXNET 13 records containing the word “arsenic” found in ITER

  10. RiskIE Screenshot

  11. Examples of ARA Projects • Risk Document Development: Relative Source Contribution for RDX for U.S. Army • Research: Dietary arsenic exposure from soil for State of Texas & Hawaii Department of Health • Peer Review: Review of 1,3-Butadiene Document Screening Level for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality • Tools: RiskIE & ITER • Training: Dose-Response Boot Camp

  12. Case Study: Arsenic in Soil Hawai’i

  13. StateHELP RiskIE

  14. Meanwhile in Texas… RiskIE

  15. StateHELP RiskIE

  16. Does This Effort Duplicate Current Federal Efforts? • This effort does not duplicate ATSDR MRLs, EPA IRIS, FDA ADIs, Health Canada TDIs or RIVM TOCs. ARA supports existing risk values! • To the contrary,ARA shares resources to avoid duplication because: • It does not replace individual regulatory processes; ARA users tap in as appropriate. • Many risk values/issues will never be worked by federal groups. • Current federal approaches have resource limitations; thus, new chemicals addressed without duplicate effort. • Update of older values can benefit federal groups as one technical input to internal deliberations. • ARA goes beyond risk values/issues – it is also a shared resource for training and data communication.

  17. Why Do Diverse Groups Fund? • ARA mission… • Aligns with many public health goals. • Provides value as a timely resource with enhanced credibility. • Allows stakeholder input. • Harmonizes risk values and methods. • Nonprofit corporations demonstrate concept can work (e.g., peer consultation with Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) of EPA). • NLM & TERA success in building ITER; ~200,000 hits per month demonstrates likely value of ARA • Aligns with stated needs of stakeholders – e.g., Environmental Council of States (ECOS); Interstate Chemical Clearinghouse. 18

  18. The Alliance for Risk Assessment provides: Credibility Projects are evaluated by the ARA Steering Committee, composed of a broad range of experts from various backgrounds and perspectives. The involvement of diverse interests: • enhances credibility • ensures careful consideration of all key data and ideas • provides thoughtful management of potential biases • indicates the importance of a project to the broader risk assessment community

  19. The Alliance for Risk Assessment provides: Sharing of Resources The collaborative nature of the ARA centers on the pooling of resources. ARA participants benefit from access to: • Technical resources- ARA provides access to experienced scientists and experts not typically found within a single organization. • Financial Resources- For organizations with limited funding, ARA offers help covering the costs of a project, and will assist in identifying potential co-sponsors. • Information- ARA participants keep each other informed of their activity, creating opportunities for collaboration.

  20. The Alliance for Risk Assessment provides: Exposure The ARA encourages the free-flow of information across organizations. Projects that utilize the ARA process will be transparently broadcast within the Risk assessment community via: • RiskIE- The Risk Information Exchange is a free internet database that tracks in-progress risk and toxicity assessments • ITER- The International Toxicity Estimates of Risk database lists chronic human health risk values • ARA Newsletter/Website- ARA maintains an up-to-date website with descriptions of ongoing projects. Newsletter updates are sent regularly to the risk assessment community

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