Toxicology and Environmental Health Committee

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	Chair Souleiman El Balkhi Limoges University Hospital, France	Contact Us Scientific Committees Toxicology and Environmental Health Committee
	Vice-Chair Antoine Dupuis University & Teaching Hospital of Poitiers, France

Purpose of the Committee

Committee objectives:

• To promote and disseminate research in environmental health toxicology.
• To bring together scientists and enhance collaboration and communication among groups working in the field.
• To establish recommendations in the field (bioanalytical validation).
• To educate IATDMCT members on advances and opportunities in the area.

Scope of the Committee:

• Assessment of human exposure to environmental contaminants through the use human biomonitoring.
• Optimization of human biomonitoring targets through the development of biomarkers, bio-analytical methods, toxicokinetics and toxicokinetic modeling (physiologically-based toxicokinetic modeling).
• Potential linkage of exposure to environmental contaminants and clinical effects and application to laboratory medicine.
• Exposome assessment for health promotion and health risk assessment.

Committee Initiatives Currently in Progress (2021)

• Support the program for the 2021 conference in Rome with 1 symposium and 1 roundtable.
• Contribution to COMPASS.
• Finalizing the Guideline on bioanalytical validation in Environmental Toxicology.
• Proposal for a joint symposium with Society of Toxicology.

Committee Initiatives & Activities

• 18th International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, Sept 14-16 2019, Virtual Congress
  Symposium: Non-conventional but Critical Sources of Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDC)
• 17th International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, Sept 22-26 2019, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
  Symposium: Environmental pollutants and health outcomes: an overview of recent evidence
  Morning Session: Lead poisoning in the 21st century
• 16th International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, Sept 16-19 2018, Brisbane, Australia
  Symposium: Alternative matrix for the determination of human exposure to environmental pollutants
• 15th International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, Sept 24-27 2017, Kyoto, Japan
  Symposium: Assessing human exposure to environmental pollutants

Scientific Contributions

• Contributions to Compass
  • Venisse N. What’s new about the exposome? The IATDMCT Compass, 19 (3), 2020.
  • Venisse N and Dupuis A. GLYPHOSATE EXPOSURE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION. The IATDMCT Compass, 18 (3), 2019.
  • Amy MacDonald and David Kinniburgh. THE ALBERTA BIOMONITORING PROGRAM. The IATDMCT Compass, 17 (4), 2018.
  • Dupuis A, Venisse N, Cambien G, Binson G. WHAT ABOUT BIOANALYTICAL METHOD VALIDATION GUIDELINES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH? The IATDMCT Compass, 17 (3), 2018.
  • Haddad S. REPORT OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY (SOT) ANNUAL MEETING IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. The IATDMCT Compass, 17 (2), 2018.
  • Venisse N. A NEW SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CREATED WITHIN IATDMCT. THE COMMITTEE IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TOXICOLOGY. The IATDMCT Compass, 16 (4), 2017.