Location: Rama Gardens Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

Date: 17 – 18 November 2005

 

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Program

 

Day 1

 

8.00 - 8.30             Registration

 

8.30 – 8.45             Opening: Host LCFA

 

8.45 – 9.15             Introduction to SELAMAT: Dr. Hans Marvin (overall coordinator of SELAMAT)

 

9.15 – 9.45             Introduction in the Quantification of Dietary Exposure to Toxic Compounds (Dr. Polly Boon, RIKILT, the Netherlands)

·         Acute and chronic dietary exposure

·         Probabilistic modeling

·         MCRA

·         EPA policy on tiered approach / EU guidelines

·         Probabilistic approach for multi-compound modeling

·         Discussion

 

 

Coffee/ tea break

 

 

10.00 – 10.45          Food consumption data (Dr. Philippe Verger; INRA, France)

·         Methods to collect consumption data

·         Types of surveys and quality

·         Availability of food consumption data world-wide

·         Comparing national food consumption surveys

 

10.45 – 11.30          Availability and quality of residue data in Europe (Dr. Carlo Brera, ISS, Italy)

 

Lunch

 

 

13.00 – 13.45          Collection of residue data as part of SCOOP actions (Dr. Ronald  Schothorst, RIVM, the Netherlands)

 

13.45 – 14.30          EU-project SAFE FOODS: New insights in modelling of risks (Dr. Polly Boon, RIKILT, the Netherlands)

·         Electronic platform of databases

·         Modeling of effect

·         Integration exposure and effect

·         Multi.compound modeling

 

14.30 – 15.00          Discussion (chaired by Dr. Hans Marvin, RIKILT)

 

15.00 – 15.15          Short country presentations on:

·         Thailand photo

·         Philippines photo

·         Malaysia photo

·         Taiwan photo

·         Japan photo

·         China photo

·         South Korea photo

·         Indonesia photo

                           

 

Coffee/ tea break

 

 

Day 2

 

Training quantitative risk assessment (by Dr. Polly Boon, RIKILT)

 

09.00 – 11.00          @RISK – a tool for Quantitative Risk Assessment

·         Explanation of @RISK

·         Simple examples in @RISK to demonstrate the principle of the probabilistic approach in acute exposure

·         Exercises performed in @RISK

·         Discussion and questions

 

 

Coffee / Tea

 

 

11.15 – 15.00          Monte Carlo Risk Assessment (MCRA) program

·         Monte Carlo Risk Assessments (MCRA) Program

·         Exercises in MCRA

 

 

Coffee / Tea

 

15.15 – 15.45          Setting up your own MS Access database compatible with MCRA

·         Coding of foods and compounds

·         Importing excel sheets with data into an MS Access database

·         Exercises

 

 

15.45 - 17.15          Setting up your own MS Access (cont’d)

 

17.15 – 17.30          Closing