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Symposium: 50
th
anniversary celebrations of the
BfR-committee “Assessment of Intoxications”
The event for physicians, chemists, pharmacists and
specialist personnel from the public health service is
conducted every year at the BfR in cooperation with the
Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and the Robert Koch
Institute (RKI). A total of 30 presentations were held by
UBA, RKI and BfR staff members to more than 500 par-
ticipants who had come from all over Germany. For years
now, the further training event has concentrated on di-
rectly conveying new scientific findings to a specialised
audience, followed by discussions. The topics dealt with
in 2014 ranged from the risks posed by the ingredients of
jewellery and cosmetics through the health effects of the
energy turnaround in Germany to the use of antibiotics in
hospitals and livestock farming. An additional workshop
for researching literature from special databases, which
was offered for the first time, was very well received by
the participants.
This symposium was dedicated to the significant re-
sults and successes of the 1964 founded “intoxication
committee”. For example: laying the foundations of clini-
cal toxicology in Germany, the initiation and execution of
numerous examination and research projects, the prepa-
ration of policy papers and the introduction and accom-
paniment of several legislative procedures. The com-
mittee also compiled a set of information sheets for the
diagnosis and treatment of intoxications which has been
available for many years as an electronic database. With
the National Monitoring of Intoxications, the event offered
a look at the future of the committee's work.
26 –28 March 2014
29 April 2014
Further training event for the
public health service
In 2014, the “National Committee for the Assessment of
Intoxications”, based at the BfR, celebrated its 50-year
anniversary with a press conference, symposium and
official ceremony.
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