Joint SoBRA / RSC December 2019 Conference
Current Issues in Contaminated Land Risk Assessment
Date: 4th December 2019
Venue: The Royal Society of Chemistry, The Library, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA
Programme & Links to Presentations (* requires login)
9:30 am Registration, tea & coffee
9:45 am Morning Chair’s Remarks & Housekeeping – Hannah White (SoBRA) *
9:55 am Bias in the delivery of Risk Assessment – Alex Lee (WSP) *
10:15 am C4SL – The Sequel – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Toxicologist – Camilla Alexander-White (MKTox Consultancy) *
10:35 am Discussion and Questions to Speakers
10:50 am Morning Tea and Coffee Break
11:05 am Exhaled air analysis to assess exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons and their degredation by-products – Paul Scheepers (Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Netherlands) *
11:35 am Update on Stats Guidance – Lucy Thomas (RSK)
12:00 pm Discussion and Questions to Speakers
12:15 pm Lunch
12:50 pm SoBRA Annual General Meeting
13:25 pm Afternoon Chair’s remarks – Kate Jones (RSC Toxicology Group)
13:30 pm Using stable isotope-based analyses to confirm in-situ degradation – Dora Taggart (Microbial Insights) *
14:00 pm Emerging contaminants – Anti-microbial Resistance in the Environment – Lucy Bethell and Holly Small (Mott MacDonald) *
14:30 pm Benchmark dose modelling – comparing EU and US EPA approaches – Mike Quint (EH Sciences) *
15:00 pm Discussion and Questions to Speakers
15:15 pm Afternoon Tea and Coffee Break
15:30 pm Latest approaches to ground gas risk assessment – Steve Wilson (EPG) *
15:50 pm Updates from Subgroups
- Accreditation: Chris Taylor (National Grid)*
- Asbestos: Simon Cole (Aecom) *
- Technical Panel: Geraint Williams (SoBRA) *
- Vapour Intrusion: Lucy Thomas (SoBRA) *
- NAPL: David Holmes (Ecologia) *
16:30 pm Discussion and Questions to Speakers
16:45 pm Closing Remarks – Hannah White (SoBRA Chair)
16:55 pm 10 year anniversary – Drinks Reception