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Apitox Task Force
Noa Simon, CARI, Belgium Piotr Medrzycki, CRA-API, Italy
Background
COLOSS Task Force (TF) APITOX group of independent scientists with
interest on bee toxicology
created in 2013 at Louvain la Neuve
Apitox Task Force Noa Simon, CARI, Belgium Piotr Medrzycki, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Apitox Task Force Noa Simon, CARI, Belgium Piotr Medrzycki, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Apitox Task Force Noa Simon, CARI, Belgium Piotr Medrzycki, CRA-API, Italy Background COLOSS Task Force (TF) APITOX group of independent scientists with interest on bee toxicology created in 2013 at Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) in the
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Objective
investigate the effects of environmental toxicants on bees design methodology for the study of these effects promote risks assessment protocols that are effective in
protecting bees and bee colonies
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Objective
specific – EFSA GD
individuate gaps in EFSA guidelines (e.g. homing flight,
honeydew) and propose improvements
individuate most important tests that need to be validated organize international working groups for new OECD TG
development and for ring-testing
fund raising at international level (maybe EC, …)
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Main topics
bee ecotoxicology exposure to environmental toxicants methodology development and
standardisation (BEEBOOK was the first important progress in standardising methods)
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Philosophy
Scientific rigour + Constructiveness + Independence + Democracy (on-line decisioning)
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Members
Criteria:
- interest to become a member
- affiliation
- presentation of his/her work
- list of publications
- declaration of interest (DOI)
- COLOSS membership
The decision on the acceptance or rejection of the candidature is done on the basis of a vote of the TF members, based on the simple majority.
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Past activities
2012 - Before becoming officially a TF, its members met
and contributed constructively to the public discussion on the methods for Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products on bees, carried out by the EFSA
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Future perspectives
Recruitment of new members Methodological discussions:
− Chronic toxicity on adult honeybees and bioaccumulation − Brood feeding tests in lab/in field − Sublethal effects (homing, HPG, flight efficiency) − Synergistic effects − Different exposure routes (e.g. honeydew) − Standardisation of test conditions (e.g. test temperature,
bee origin...)
− Assessment of disorder symptoms in field − Toxicity tests on SB and BB − Others...
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