On November 14, 2019, at 14:30 Central European Time (CET), the European Food Safety Authority will hold a webinar titled “Testing the study appraisal methodology for the re-evaluation of BPA [(bisphenol A; CAS 80-05-7)] safety.” The webinar will summarize a technical report on the same topic. This report was endorsed by the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP Panel) on September 19, 2019, and it is expected to become “publicly available on EFSA’s website in advance of the webinar.” It “focuses on the performance of the study appraisal methodology, as published in the 2017 protocol [(BPA hazard assessment protocol; FPF reported)], when tested on a selection of [epidemiological and animal] studies that had been previously appraised by EFSA in the context of its 2015 and 2016 assessments of BPA.” Consequently, the webinar will “describe how the methodology was tested and discuss the outcome and the resulting refinement of the appraisal methodology.”
The draft agenda is available. Registration will be open until 14:00 (CET) on November 14, 2019 or until the maximum number of participants (500) is reached.
Read more
EFSA (2019). “Webinar: Testing the study appraisal methodology for the re-evaluation of BPA safety.”
EFSA (2019). “Agenda. Testing the study appraisal methodology for the re-evaluation of BPA safety.” (pdf)
