The Society’s Continuing Education (CE) online courses program is dedicated to providing opportunities and resources to help toxicologists keep their skills sharp, learn new techniques, and stay competitive in the field.
The SOT Learning Library contains Continuing Education courses, webinars, lectures, and more, designed to assist toxicologists at all career stages.
The document explains that many everyday products contain hazardous chemicals that create risks for health, the environment, and businesses, emphasizing that uncovering the risks and liabilities of these materials should be a standard part of due diligence, and it provides suggestions on how to incorporate safer chemistry into that process while encouraging a shift toward safer alternatives in response to growing regulations and consumer demand.
This guidance was developed with the aim to advance broader agreement on a general approach and criteria for the selection of safer alternatives, with a focus on chemical substitution. It is intended to advance a consistent understanding of the minimum requirements needed to determine whether a chemical alternative is safer than the priority chemical, product, or technology for substitution, independent of the entity performing the assessment or the alternatives assessment framework being used.
Most contemporary chemical processes rely on non-renewable resources and reagents associated with negative impact on environment and human health. As a result, the safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) framework is launched to guide the innovation towards safe and sustainable materials and chemical products. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical in the production of plastics but known to activate oestrogen receptors and linked by numerous studies to adverse effects on both human health and the environment.
Every year as part of the Green Chemistry Commitment Program, Beyond Benign ask our GCC Signers to complete an Audit Questionnaire survey to report on the status of their green chemistry journeys at their institutions. This helps Beyond Benign to assess patterns of where and how green chemistry is included in higher education institutions and allows us to better serve our Signers through the GCC Program.
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