Regulatory Requirements for Continuous Emissions Monitoring

Recent regulations such as the 2016 amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and regulatory agencies such as the European Union (EU) have begun to encourage alternatives to animal testing to assess chemical hazards. These efforts aim to replace animal tests with reliable and validated non-animal methods. This webinar series will highlight the regulatory landscape of toxicity testing requirements and acceptance of animal testing alternatives for industrial chemicals with a specific focus on the 2016 update to TSCA. It will showcase novel and emerging non-animal hazard evaluation strategies for compliance under such regulations such as read-across, high throughput assays, and quantitative structural-activity relationships.

Despite the promise of target-based drug discovery ushered in by the genomics era, no mechanistically novel rationally designed antibiotic has reached clinically utility to address the threat of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. Phenotypic screening remains the primary source for new antibacterial compounds, which mainly come from mining various chemical libraries. In this webinar, Carl Balibar (Merck Research Laboratories) discussed screen design, target bias, and hit-prioritization strategies to identify those entities with the greatest opportunity to be developed into the next new antibiotic.

As a tool for elemental analyses ED-XRF and ICP-OES are the instruments of choice for process control, since they provide the versatility, precision and sensitivity, robustness, uptime and ease of use.

Many businesses are transforming their product safety and chemical compliance strategies from reactive to proactive, achieving measurable improvements in supply chain continuity, speed to market, brand protection and customer satisfaction. The smartest companies are going a step further—establishing a chemical policy that brings rapid advances in environmental science, human health and technology, the expanding availability of decision making data and the integration of supply chain governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) together in a comprehensive, manageable plan.