August 13 to 15, 2019 – Washington D.C., United States
The ProHuma Institute participated in the Technical Event – Joint Regulatory Technology Transfer meeting (JRTT), held in Washington D.C., USA, from August 13 to 15. This event was organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American task forces – AHETF (Agricultural Handler Exposure Task Force), ORETF (Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force), and ARTF (Agricultural Re-entry Task Force). The event focused on the transfer of knowledge and methodologies, with presentations on data generated by these three task forces over the past 25 years and how the task forces and the EPA worked together in the development of these databases.
In addition to the ProHuma’s Brazilian participation, ANVISA (Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency) also attended the technical event at the invitation of the U.S. EPA.
For ProHuma, it was a privilege to participate in this event, especially since the institute had recently acquired the AHED (American Occupational Exposure Database) studies. Gaining knowledge and understanding of how the American database was developed and how the discussions between the operator exposure task force and the U.S. agency were carried out will help us in the development of the ProHuma Brazilian occupational exposure database and support the implementation of occupational exposure risk assessment in Brazil.
