Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) Peer Consultation Program. D. W. Briggs, J. Patterson, and P. M. Nance, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)
The Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) is part of the United States. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative. The goal of VCCEP is to enable the public to better understand the potential health risks to children associated with certain chemical exposures. Companies that manufacture and/or import 20 different chemicals have volunteered to sponsor an evaluation of the toxicity and exposure of these chemicals. Sponsorship requires the companies to collect or develop health effects and exposure information on their chemical(s) and then to integrate that information into a risk assessment and a "data needs" assessment. A group of scientific experts will evaluate the assessments developed by the sponsors. These evaluations will utilize a peer consultation process, which is being developed and managed by Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA). This poster will describe the VCCEP peer consultation process and present results of the first reviews.
Although this work has been funded in part by the U.S. EPA (cooperative agreement X-82916801), no official endorsement should be [Editor's Note: Abstract ends here as it does in Final Program.]
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