Preamble:

Toxicologists play a significant role in evaluating the  potential adverse effects of chemicals in the workplace and in the  environment at large. They are intimately involved in the processes of research, risk assessment and related regulatory affairs. Because their  work is vital to the maintenance of individual and public health toxicologists must be highly trained, experienced and productive. To assure that people engaged in this work are well prepared and competent, procedures for the recognition of competence on a world-wide basis must be established. Thus we propose to establish the International Assembly for the Recognition of Toxicologists.

The goal of this assembly is to enhance the quality and influence of toxicology throughout the world through the following:

Mission:
1. To establish a forum for the development of criteria for recognizing qualified experts in toxicology.
2. To assist toxicology organizations in establishing these criteria and using them in the recognition of toxicologists
3. To promote identification of education and training needs to enhance expertise in toxicology

Strategy:
We shall accomplish our mission by forming an international working group composed of representatives from the several interested organizations whose task will be to coordinate activities and develop an action plan.

Membership:
Membership in the International Assembly for the Recognition of Toxicologists shall be open to all organizations (registries, boards, academies, etc.) whose purpose is the recognition of expertise in toxicology.

Minutes of IART Task Force Meeting in London, September, 2000

A Proposed Framework for Harmonization and background materials (pdf format) (185Kb)
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Tabulated Information on Boards and Registries

Harmonization History
 

LINKS TO ORGANIZATIONS:
The following are links to the web pages of organizations which are currently participating directly in the IART harmonization proces:

EUROTOX PARTICIPANTS:

EUROTOX
http://www.uta.fi/eurotox/

Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Toxicology Section
http://www.swisstox.ethz.ch/

Bristish Toxicology Society
http://www.bts.org/

Finnish Society of Toxioclogy
http://www.uta.fi/fst/

German Society of Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
http://www.toxikologie.de

Italian Society of Toxioclogy
http://user.unimi.it/~spharm/sit/SIThome.html

Netherlands Society of Toxicoclogy
http://www.tcdd.nl/

Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Toxicology Section
http://www.folkehelsa.no

Spanish Association of Toxicology
http://tox.umh.es

JAPAN:

Japanese Society of Toxicology
http://www.jssst.or.jp/jsts/index-e.html

UNITED STATES:

American Board of Toxicology
http://www.abtox.org/