PBMS team member Lee Walker and Gloria Pereira recently attended two workshops relating to a large Pan-European collaborative research project. The Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) project aims to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment to protect human health and the environment.
The first workshop brought together UK PARC partners and stakeholders at the University of Birmingham to discuss opportunities and priorities for research. Lee and Gloria, along with representatives from the UK’s Environment Agency led a discussion session on how the UK might prioritize what chemical contaminants to monitor in the UK environment, knowledge gaps and research needs for these approaches.
A second workshop, held in Athens among international PARC colleagues, explored opportunities for collaboration, and alignment, between efforts to develop a monitoring-based risk assessment prioritization tool, and early warning approaches and systems for potential and realised environmental impacts.