GD — Society for Dermopharmacy
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Issue 1 (2006) |
GD News
Risk Assessment and Regulatory Affairs
New GD Department Set to Work with Ambitious Projects
Following the departments Dermatopharmacology, Dermatotherapy, Dermocosmetics and Extemporaneous Preparations already established some time ago, the recently founded GD department Risk Assessment and Regulatory Affairs has also taken up its work. Its tasks will comprise safety-toxicological and regulatory questions on dermatics, medicinal products, cosmetics and chemicals. First definite project of the group is the drawing up of a statement and organization of a symposium on Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH), the central part of the new European chemical legislation.
In the course of the constituting meeting of the department in Cologne
on 7 October 2005 the pharmacist Dr. Jürgen Regenold, Badenweiler
was elected department head. Regenold is considered to be an expert in
the field of drug authorization; he represents thus an essential section
of the future department work. The same applies to pharmacist Dr. Usfeya
Muazzam who acts for the Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte
(BfArM) (Federal Institute for Drugs and Medicinal Products) within the
department.
Other members of the department are concerned in different functions with
the safety assessment of cosmetics, cosmetical raw materials and other
chemicals in their professional sphere. One of them is the toxicologist
Dr. Richard Vogel of Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) (Federal
Institute for Risk Assessment), Berlin, who has been elected acting department
head jointly with the physician Dr. Hans-Udo Krächter, Cognis GmbH.
 The recently established GD department Risk Assessment and Regulatory Affairs is - as all other departments of the GD - composed of interdisciplinary members. At the constituting meeting pharmacist Dr. Jürgen Regenold (center) was elected department head, deputies are physician Dr. Hans-Udo Krächter (left) and toxicologist Dr. Richard Vogel (right). |
Event on REACH
on 12 October 2006
The symposium on the subject "REACH" organized by the department
is the scheduled to take place in Berlin on 12 October 2006 and will be
organized in cooperation with the BfR. In the scope of the event, suggestions
on the practical realization of the REACH implementation will be presented
from a scientific view.
Further projects of the department are the development of strategies for
dermatotoxicological tests of substances and products, the elaboration
of position papers on questions of legal differentiation as well as the
furtherance of the dialogue between authorities, producers and the public
for example on the discussion about alternative methods for animal testing.