Society For Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2004

Wednesday

	7:30-8:30 am	SRA Business Meeting
	7-8 am	Exposure Assessment Specialty Group Breakfast Meeting
		Symposium	TBD
PL3	8:30 AM-10:00 AM		Plenary Session 3
W1	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	Risk Analysis in the Age of Terrorism and Homeland Security
W2	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	The Potential Impact of Regulation on Innovation in the Drug Industry: The QT Issue
W3	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	Chemical Mixtures Health Risk Assessment Methods, Part 1
W4	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	Food Safety and Risk Regulation, Part 1
W5	10:30 am - Noon	Oral	Emerging Topics in Risk, Science and Law
W6	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	European Exposure Assessment Toolbox, Part 1
W7	10:30 am - Noon	Symposium	Risk Assessment Applications
W8	10:30 am - Noon	Poster Platform	Dose Response: Current Concerns and Case Studies
W9	10:30 am - Noon	Oral	Safety
W10	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Oral	Terrorism: Management of Aerosols and Priority Threats
W11	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	Examining the Degree of Risk Protection in Regulatory Risk Assessments
W12	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	Chemical Mixtures Health Risk Assessment Methods, Part 2
W13	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	Food Safety and Risk Regulation, Part 2
W14	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Oral	Statistical Methods: Uncertainty, Confidence Limits, etc.
W15	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	European Exposure Assessment Toolbox, Part 2
W16	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	New Challenges and Approaches for Assessing Risk at Radioactive Sites
W17	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Symposium	Education in Risk Analysis I: World Programs
W18	1:30 - 3:00 pm	Poster Platform	Health Risk Perception and Communication
W19	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Oral	Modeling for Rare Events and Terrorism
W20	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Symposium	Cancer/Non-Cancer Harmonization
W21	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Symposium	Dose Response Relationships from Pharmacodynamic Modeling
W22	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Oral	Biomonitoring and Dose Reconstruction
W23	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Symposium	Data Quality in Risk Assessment: The Status of the Practice Today and Into the Future
W24	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Oral	Exposure in Food and Water
W25	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Oral	New Methodologies in Risk Management
W26	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Symposium	Education in Risk Analysis II: Program Content
W27	3:30 - 5:00 pm	Oral	International Risk Communication/Risk Perception
P3	10-10:30 am and 3-3:30 pm	Poster	Poster Session 3
	Noon-1.30pm	Round Tables Developments in Risk Science and Law 2004 - Chaired by: Susan Poulter Filling the Data and Knowledge Gap for Modeling Pre-harvest Risks - Chaired by: Linda Abbott/Clare Narrod Can Drinking Water Risk Assessment Approaches be Harmonized? A Case Study with Vinyl Chloride - Chaired by: Harvey Clewell The Benchmark Dose and Risk Assessment - 20 Years Later - Chaired by: Peter Preuss Internationalization at SRA - Chaired by: Jonathan Wiener and Robin Cantor

Round Tables

Developments in Risk Science and Law 2004 - Chaired by: Susan Poulter

One of the main goals of the Risk Science, and Law (RSL) Specialty Group is to help the general SRA membership to recognize and understand the ways in which environmental, safety, and health law and regulation employ and influence risk analysis, and, conversely, the ways in which risk analysis has had a profound impact on how environmental, safety, and health laws define and measure accomplishment of their goals. In a typical year, numerous actions by regulatory agencies, by legislatures, and by courts will use, affect, and be affected by risk analysis. Since many of these events occur after the deadline for conference submissions, last year RSL introduced a new Developments Symposium, panels devoted exclusively to developments in risk law and policy during the year since the last annual conference. While the chair and participants in the panels are designated, the topics are not. Instead, the panelists decide shortly before the annual meeting what topics to cover. Depending on events, the panels may involve several presentations on a single important development (e.g., a particularly significant court case or proposed regulation, an emerging concept, or a newly active institution), or it may involve a number of separate presentations on different topics (e.g., court decisions, agency initiatives, etc.). In either case, the goal is to provide the entire SRA membership with authoritative and timely analysis of law and policy initiatives that affect their practices. We encourage a robust discussion and debate on the merits and implications of these developments for risk analysis.

Filling the Data and Knowledge Gap for Modeling Pre-harvest Risks - Chaired by: Linda Abbott/Clare Narrod

Participants: Michael McElvaine, Karen Ekelman, Ron Fayer, James Trout, Ali Sadeghi, and Carrie Graff, Hussni Mohamed and others

The purpose of this round table discussion is to discuss where we are as scientists in modeling microbial pre-harvest risks. At the round table, we bring together scientists from various disciplines (microbiology, epidemiology, animal science, ecology, public health, economics, risk analysis, and public policy). Each scientist does research to improve societies understanding of integral parts of the pre-harvest yet rarely do they communicate amongst each other as to how this knowledge can be tapped to use it in a risk assessment. The discussion will focus on understanding data gaps, limits of detection, difficulties in modeling fate transport, and problems associated with standardization of prevalence analysis across research studies. The goal of the discussion is to identify what information risk analysts would need to properly model the pre-harvest stage of production and to discuss ways in which the scientists may alter their research approach to fill in data gaps.

Can Drinking Water Risk Assessment Approaches be Harmonized? A Case Study with Vinyl Chloride - Chaired by: Harvey Clewell

This roundtable discussion will explore the issues underlying the disparity in the approaches used by different regulatory agencies to obtain water quality guidelines for volatile chemicals. To focus the discussion, the roundtable will compare and contrast the approaches used by several regulatory agencies to obtain water contaminant limits for vinyl chloride. The goal of this roundtable is to use the experience with vinyl chloride as a basis for evaluating the key elements in risk assessments for volatile chemicals in drinking water, as a first step toward harmonization. An important issue specific to risk assessments for volatile chemicals in drinking water is the question of whether the exposure should be considered to include an inhalation component, as opposed to the traditional assumption that the exposure is solely by ingestion.

The Benchmark Dose and Risk Assessment - 20 years later - Chaired by: Peter Preuss

2004 marks the 20th year since Dr. Kenny Crump proposed benchmark dose (BMD) as an approach for modeling dose-response. Efforts by the risk assessment community during this intervening period to fully adopt BMD have led to many issues and some unexpected though valuable insights into underlying fundamentals of dose-response assessment. This roundtable is intended both to illumine further a few of these issues and to pay tribute to Dr. Crump for his role as the vanguard messenger of BMD to the dose-response assessment community.

Internationalizing the SRA - Chaired by: Jonathan Wiener and Robin Cantor

After many internal discussions among the Society for Risk Analysis ("SRA") leadership, and with representatives from other organizations, which have addressed their own "internationalization" issues, an ad-hoc committee has been charged by the SRA Council with developing proposed actions for further discussion among interested SRA members around the world. The proposed measures address both actions at the individual member level to make SRA more affordable for participants from the developing world, and actions to be taken by the Society as a whole to advance its international visibility and relevance. Options for initial discussion include:

1. Creating a voluntary, tax-deductible increment to the annual dues (chosen by a simple check-off box on the annual member dues form) that, if SRA members choose to contribute, will be used to fund membership scholarships, decreased membership rates, and travel to SRA meetings, for SRA members from the developing world.

2. Promoting and helping to organize regionally based workshop and conference events that will help build interest and the recruitment of new members outside of the US.

3. Building upon these regionally based events to flow into the agenda for the World Congresses on Risk.

Considering if SRA should develop a structure that includes additional Sections.