Date/Time
Date(s) - Jan 23, 2026
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location
Franz-Grill-Straße
Workshop Program
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome & Introduction (AOAC)
9:05 – 9:20 Updates from AOAC Europe Section Working Groups on “Best Practices for Bioassay Testing of Food and other Complex Mixtures.”
9:20 – 9:40 Keynote Lecture 1
Beate Escher (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Leipzig, Germany): PANORAMIX Project Key Learnings – “Bridging Environment to Exposome: In Vitro Evidence for Chemical Mixture Propagation to Humans.”
10:00 – 10:40 Keynote Lecture 2
Andrea Haase (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment; Berlin, Germany) – “Qualification as a Tool to Speed up the Regulatory Implementation of NAMs- Insights from EFSA NAMs4NANO Project.”
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Keynote Lecture 3
Amira Fernández Ramos (AIMPLAS, Technological Center of Plastics; Valencia, Spain) – “Harmonised NAMs for Risk Assessment in complex mixtures: Innovation and Communication as a key tool in Safety Evaluation.”
11:30 – 12:00 Working Group Presentations: Key Take Home Messages from AOAC Review
12:00 – 12:50 Round Table I (during working lunch)
Identification of Key Inputs for the Qualification Guidelines for Mixtures
12:50 – 13:20 Break & Networking / Summary Preparation
13:20 – 14:00 Summary Presentation of Round Table I
14:00 – 14:45 Round Table II
Roadmap for Development of Best Practices for Bioassays in Mixtures – Panel Discussion Moderated by Katerina Mastovska (AOAC INTERNATIONAL; Rockville, MD, USA)
14:45 – 15:00 Closing Remarks and Next Steps (AOAC Europe Section Bioassays Project Steering Committee: Maricel Marin-Kuan, Thomas Gude, and Katerina Mastovska
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