SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF REGULATED PRODUCTS (REPRO) - PESTICIDES UNIT
Parma, 10 February 2015
Stakeholder workshop on Pesticide epidemiology
Location: Paris
Date: 18 February 2015
Programme
Time
Topic
Presenter
09.00
Opening remarks
José Tarazona, EFSA
Karin Nienstedt, DG Santè
1st session: ANSES and EFSA activities on pesticide
epidemiology
Chair: Lars Niemann, BfR
09.20
Literature review on epidemiological studies
linking exposure to pesticides and health
effects (EFSA External Scientific report)
Ioanna Tzoulaki, Imperial College
09.40
Health effects from pesticides. The INSERM
report
Geneviève Van Maele-Fabry,
University of Louvain-Brussels
10.00
ANSES activities following the publication of
the INSERM Report
Marie Odile Rambourg, ANSES
10.15
EFSA activities following the publication of
the EFSA External Scientific report
Federica Crivellente, EFSA
10.30
Coffee break
2nd session: Authorities’ and stakeholder activities
Chair: José Tarazona, EFSA
10.50
IARC evaluation and research on the
carcinogenicity of pesticides: emphasis on
epidemiological studies
Dana Loomis, IARC
11.10
The US EPA activities in the field of
epidemiology: integrating epidemiology into
the regulatory process of pesticide risk
assessment
David Miller, US-EPA
11.30
ECPA initiatives regarding epidemiological
studies and pesticides
Gerard Swaen, ECPA
European Food Safety Authority • Via Carlo Magno 1A • 43126 Parma • ITALY
Tel. +39 0521036111 • Fax +39 0521036110 • www.efsa.europa.eu
11.50
The view of NGOs (Reseau Environnement
Santè) regarding epidemiological studies and
pesticides
12.05
The view of NGOs (PAN Europe) regarding
epidemiological studies and pesticides
12.20
Lunch
Andrè Cicolella, Reseau Environnement
Santè
Francois Veillerette, Generation Futures
PAN Europe
3rd session: the key questions to support
epidemiological outcome
Chair: Karin Nienstedt, DG Santè
13.15
The key questions for the regulatory assessor
Karine Angeli, ANSES
13.30
The key questions for the scientists
Antonio Hernandez Jerez, University
of Granada, EFSA PPR Panel
13.45
The key questions for the regulatory risk
managers
Karin Nienstedt, DG SANCO COM
14.00
Introduction to break-out sessions
Federica Crivellente, EFSA
14.10
Break-out session 1
Chair: Ioanna Tzoulaki,
Epidemiological studies available in the literature
are part of the data requirements for regulatory
risk assessment of pesticides;
Rapporteur: Andrea Altieri, EFSA

For which purposes would regulators be
using the epidemiological data for their risk
assessments?

What is needed in order for regulators to use
epidemiological findings and to integrate
these into the risk assessments?
Break-out session 2
A large number of epidemiological studies are
currently available in the literature;

Can researchers conduct epidemiological
studies meeting the needs of the regulators?

How can researchers improve current tools
in order to bridge the gap between risk
assessment and epidemiological studies?
Chair: David Miller, US EPA
Rapporteur: Federica Crivellente,
EFSA
Break-out session 3
The epidemiological studies are based on findings
on a wide selection of pesticides and health
effects in different populations;

Where to focus our attention and give priority
- on which pesticides, effects and/or
populations?
Chair: Antonio Hernandez Jerez,
EFSA
Rapporteur: Andrea Terron, EFSA
2
16.00
Coffee break
16.15
Wrap-up session
17.0017.15
(15 min for each break-out session)
Rapporteurs
End of workshop
ANSES and EFSA
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