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BfR – Department 3: Department Exposure (BfR - EXPO)
Institution
Section overview
Description
At the BfR, the Department Exposure is responsible for the methodological standardisation and performance of exposure assessments in the field of food and product safety as well as in implementation of the REACH Regulation. In the area of poison and product documentation and in close cooperation with the eight German poison information centres, the Department draws on population-based information sources for the identification and assessment of particularly acute toxicological risks and provides the poison information centres with product information for their emergency advisory services. The Department supports evidence-based assessments of consumer health risks in the areas of epidemiology, statistics and mathematical modelling. It also responsible for legally required scientific assessments for the transport of dangerous goods and advises the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies. The Department represents Germany on issues of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and handles in-house quality management. It also performs all central tasks relating to information technology and telecommunication.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Action Programme Environment and Health. Project: Improvement of the /Recording of Human Exposure Data for the Quality Enhancement of the Monitoring System 'Cases of Poisoning Reported by Physicians under Section 16e of the German Chemicals Act
- BfR-MEAL-Study: Meals for the exposure estimation and analysis of food
- Characterization of the barrier function of human reconstructed skin models
- Children’s Nutrition Survey to establish food consumption
- Cumarine exposition: Cinnamon as ingredient of foodstuffs. Module 1: database children; Module 2: database adolescents/adults
- Data collection on adhesives and sealants used in the consumer sector
- Description of the Nature of Accidental Misuse of Chemicals and Chemical Products (DeNaMiC)
- Determining the uptake of food additives by children and adolescents in Germany
- Development of a Technical Guidance Document for preparing the Chemical Safety Report (REACH / RIP 3.2-2)
- Development of an approach to adopt the Langual system for product categorisation purposes with focus on the EU exposure assessment toolbox (CCR.IHCP.C432952.X0)
- Enquiry of data of consumers behaviour during application of paint strippers
- Evaluation of endpoints in addition to MTT for predicting skin irritation potential of chemical substances with in vitro human reconstructed skin models.
- Evaluation of exposure data on consumer products (ChemTest Phase I)
- Exposure pathways for lead in the human organism
- Foodborne intake of environmental contaminants - Analysis of the National Food Consumption Survey II (NVS II)
- In vitro tests for photogenotoxicity assessment as alternatives to photocarcinogenicity tests in ro-dents (Project part 1).
- Influence of the contact structure between farm animals on the MRSA spread
- Inhalation toxicity of nano-aerosols - animal studies
- Integrating VEGA, toxRead, MERLIN-Expo, and ERICA into a single platform for risk assessment and substitution of risky substances
- Junior Research Group Toxicokinetic Modelling
- Market share data to support exposure assessments
- Market survey of paint strippers used by consumers including the assessment of product information of paint strippers
- North Sea Ballast Water Opportunity Developing preventative and responsive measures to address acute and chronic marine pollution (Interreg IVB)
- Phthalate exposure of the population in Germany: relevant exposure sources, intake pathways and toxicokinetics using the example of DEHP (diethylhexylphthalate)
- Pilot study to establish a National Monitoring of poisoning
- Processing of food consumption data from the KiESEL study
- Project to develop Animal Risk Assessment Guidelines on housing and management (Animal Welfare)(CFP/EFSA/AHAW/2009/01) Work package 2: Hazard identification and characterisation, and exposure assessment
- Provision of poison centres data to verify exposure modellings
- Research and development projects 'Pollutants in house dust: Improving the health assessment by determining the actual dust pick-up of children and adults'
- Research project
- Review of consumer exposure data files contained in the 'European Exposure Assessment Toolbox' and introuction of new data from European Chemicals Bureau Risk Assessment Reports currently under development
- Risk characterization of ciguatera food poisoning in Europe to determine the incidence and epidemiological characteristics of ciguatera cases in Europe
- Study on hazardous detergents mixtures contained in soluble packaging for single use
- Support to complete EFSA's food consumption concise database (CFP/EFSA/DATEX/2007/01) - SuConDa
- Survey concerning the importance of geographic food origin for consumers
- Validation study for testing of skin penetration using biotechnologically devised human skin equivalents. Phase 2: Validation
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Determination of pyrrolizidin alkaloids in milk and milk products – Carry Over Study
- List of chemicals with missing IC 50-values and/or LD 50-values
- New approaches to the study of food security on the basis of cell culture systems: development of a cell culture model to evaluate the influence of dietary factors on gene expression in colon cells by the example of fatty acids
- PERFOOD - Perfluorinated Compounds in our diet
- Quantification of residues of coccidiostats in feed and food of animal origin caused by carry over from contaminated feed.
- Transfer of iodine from teat disinfectants on teat skin and teat canal
Contact
BfR – Department 3: Department Exposure
(BfR - EXPO)
Diedersdorfer Weg 1
12277 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 18412-2200
Fax: +49 (0)30 18412-2958
Email: 3(@)bfr.bund.de
