title: Health risk assessment of chemicals--a commentary on requirements for the provision of training.
abstract: Today, only a limited number of training courses specifically in human health risk assessment are available in Europe and although some basic training in health risk assessment is part of most toxicology university programmes, the preparation is often not enough. The purpose of this commentary is to present provision of training program in risk assessment based on common European criteria, easily adopted by institutions across Europe and focusing on risk assessment methodology and procedure. It is worth mentioning that the following paper does not deal with microbiological risk assessment and ecotoxicological risk assessment but mainly with chemical risk assessment. The project focuses on understanding the profile and training requirements of risk assessors in order to design a modular training program covering a range of disciplines in risk assessment and providing a model to establish guidelines for the training and recognition of risk assessors in accordance to a well-defined and properly acknowledged training standard.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, via Balzaretti 9, Milan 20133, Italy. Electronic address: corrado.galli@unimi.it.
authors.forename: Corrado L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Galli
authors.affiliation: Austrian Standards Institute (ASI), Heinestrasse 38, Vienna 1020, Austria.
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Altenpohl
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014116:Toxicology / Q000193:education* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence