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Food and Chemical Safety Committee Recent Accomplishments
Scienti c Sessions
• “Metals Exposure in Foods,” International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) 2015 Annual Meeting, July 2015 h
• “Health Risk Assessment of Oral Exposure to Arsenic,” Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) 2015 Annual Meeting, September 2015
Workshop
• Scienti c Workshop on Risk-Based Process for Mitigation of Process- Formed Compounds, May 2015 
Poster Sessions
• “An Approach to Standardize the Concepts of 'Low Dose' and Non-Monotonic Dose Response in Toxicological Research and Regulatory Science,“ Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, March 2015
• “Chemical Mixtures: Application of a Tiered Approach,“ Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, March 2015
• “Toxicology and Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures,” IAFP 2015 Annual Meeting, July 2015
• “Chemical Mixtures: Application of a Tiered Approach,” 51st Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology, September 2015
Training Seminar
• FDA Training Seminar on the ILSI North America Metal Dietary Exposure Screening Tool, June 2015
Publications
• Partitioning of Dietary Metal Intake — A Metal Dietary Exposure Screening Tool 
• Methods to Evaluate Uptake of Engineered Nanomaterials by the Alimentary Tract 
The Committee developed the Metal Dietary Exposure Screening Tool (MDEST) for use by scientists when making risk management decisions related to heavy metal exposure in the United States (ILSINAtool.org). At the request of the FDA, the Committee demonstrated the MDEST at the agency to provide hands-on training to FDA and Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) staff, leading to an invitation by JIFSAN to host a global webinar
on the MDEST to take place in January 2016.
FDA is undertaking revisions to their guidance document ‘‘Toxicological Principles for the Safety Assessment of Food Ingredients,’’ known less
formally as the ‘‘Redbook.” Based on ILSI North America’s oral and written comments to this Federal Register Notice, the FDA invited ILSI North America to present at a scientific session during the SOT 2016 Meeting.
The Committee is a co-sponsor of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Food Allergies, which has allowed ILSI North America to provide direction to the work of this Committee through oral comments at their rst meeting in June 2015. Topics raised by the ponsors, such as assessing allergen thresholds, were included as part
of the subject expert presentations during the second meeting.
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