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CREMe Quick Links
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Greetings,
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Do you find it hard to get the information
you need for your safety assessments? If so,
our new
international food and chemical safety
research network - CRN - can help.
In this issue, I explain what CRN is and the
benefits it will bring to your research.
I would like to invite you to
join CRN. In order to join CRN, please reply
to this
email or click
here to fill in the form.
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CRN - The International Research Network
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In response to the demand from
researchers in government authorities,
industry and universities, CREMe has launched
an international collaboration forum CRN
(CREMe Research Network) to allow researchers
to discuss current research issues, share
data and expertise
and to collaborate on questions related to food
safety, nutrition, cosmetics, chemical safety
and the environment.
CRN members can participate in discussions
within the expert forum, in private messages
to each
other or in the CRN Chat Room. Researchers
also have the option of sharing research data
and results with other experts online.
In addition to the advice and experience
of experts in their field, CRN Members also
receive exclusive reports, articles, and
publications in the online forum.
Current forums within CRN include:
- REACH, Chemicals & Cosmetics
- FP7 and Other Collaboration Projects
- Food Issues
- Environmental Issues
- General Exposure Forum
- Data Sets and Probabilistic Exposure
Assessment Issues
- International Issues
The "FP7 and Other Collaboration Projects"
Forum will be the catalyst for researchers in
the areas
of nutrition, food, environmental and
cosmetics safety, product development and
chemical safety in collaborating on future
funded projects.
Each member periodically receives e-mails
containing updates on the current issues that
are being discussed within the network.
CRN was launched in February 2007 and has
been extremely well received by the initial
expert group. Among its members are
universities, companies and regulators from
Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Spain, France,
Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, the
Netherlands, UK and the USA.
Why CRN Was Set Up
CREMe has performed extensive research with
practitioners in the field to find out what
problems they
were facing in their daily work. Researchers
encountered that the data they were using was
either difficult to find or was outdated.
One member is quoted as saying: "Finding the
relevant research data is a time-consuming
process - and yet at the end of the day we
are sometimes not successful in finding the
information we need, as there is not enough
public information available."
CREMe Research Network enables
researchers and experts to collaborate and to
exchange data on an international basis and
to ensure that they have access to the most
up-to-date and reliable information.
Because CRN is only accessible to researchers
and experts, members can have confidence in the
opinions and information on the network.
Some Questions Asked Within CRN:
Below are some of the questions that were
recently asked within the CRN Forum:
1. Where would you get your most up-to-date
information on REACH, given that the
regulations change so often? Have you had
that experience, that by the time
information is made available it is already
outdated? What could be done to solve that
problem?
Do you know of a reliable regulation roadmap
including all the new rules and tasks coming
up in the next few years after the
implementation?
Read Original Thread in CRN
2. Regulations state that companies must
clearly state the composition of bottled
water. However has anyone conducted tests on
the plastics from different suppliers to test
what chemicals have seeped into the water
after 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months?
How does this affect the consumer? And what
probabilistic models exist to assist in these
experiments?
Read Original Thread in CRN
3. If probabilistic modelling is to be used
to estimate exposure to a chemical so that
the result can be compared with a safety
level, what percentile value should be chosen
to compare with the safety level and should
this value always be the mean of the
percentile or an upper value of the
percentile. If probabilistic exposure
assessments are to be used should there be
European consensus for which percentile to use?
Read Original Thread in CRN
4. Should the EU adopt the US FDA approach
for regulating the use of chemicals in food
packaging materials? Would this method
provide more transparency in the system and
more control over the use of chemicals in
food contact materials?
Read Original Thread in CRN
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