<div>Estimados colegas,</div>
<div>Sería bueno contribuir con lo que se hace en Argentina, que no figura en ninguna de las contribuciones detalladas en la VIII Conferencia de Cianobacterias Tóxicas. Creo que lo más ágil sería extractar lo publicado en el Manual de Cianobacterias. Espero sus comentarios.</div>
<div>Saludos</div>
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<div>Silvia Otaño<br><br></div>
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Date: 2011/1/5<br>Subject: Publishing a Compilation of Regulatory Approaches to Cyanotoxins<br>To: <a href="mailto:silviaotano@gmail.com">silviaotano@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Dear Colleagues,</strong><br><br>At ICTC 8, we had a noon-time session on regulatory approaches to cyanotoxins. This had three main results:<br><br>1) An increasing number of countries is regulating cyanotoxins in drinking- and/or recreational waters, so the booklet on regulatory approaches that we compiled after the Bergen meeting is quite outdated.<br>
<br>2) Colleagues from contries already represented in this may wish to check whether the contribution about their country is still up to date. Others may wish to contribute. Please note the following:<br><br>This is not a formal governmental exercise, but rather a scientific collection of contributions. If you wish to seek authorisation from your government and explicitly note that in your introduction, all the better, but we don't see this as requirement.<br>
<br>Some countries do not have formal regulations in place, but nonetheless quite a bit of activity, driven by informal collaboration between researchers and public health authorities, typically based on some general regulatory statement such as that drinking-water should not contain substances in concentrations of concern to human health. (e.g. Finland in the Bergen booklet). Describing this is useful.<br>
<br>The shorter and more concise your contribution, the more likely it will be read. Please avoid general introductions about cyanotoxins - we would end up with a lot of redundancy, and can take care of that in an introduction to the whole booket.<br>
<br>PLEASE do CONTACT YOUR COLLEAGUES IN YOUR COUNTRY and harmonise your contribution. We will not publish more than one per country, and it would be extremely ineffective if I received more than one and then need to approach you with the request to merge them.<br>
<br>DEADLINE is April 2nd 2011.<br><br>3) Approaches tend to be based on WHO guidance but differ between countries, and participants felt it would be useful to have more time at the next meeting to discuss differences, e.g. in thresholds that trigger specific responses, but also in management strategies. We therefore ask that ICTC 9 plan a regular session for the topic (although maybe a different format of presentations, e.g. 5 rather than 15-20 minutes and/or hand-outs with key elements of the regulations might be adequate in order to organise more structured discussion).</p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal">Please click the link <a href="http://www.cyano2010.org/regulatory_approaches.pdf" target="_blank">regulatory_approches.pdf</a> inorder to see the file. </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><br>Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!<br>Very best regards<br><br>Ingrid Chorus<br><br>============================<br><br><strong>Dr. Ingrid Chorus</strong><br>
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e-mail: <a href="mailto:ingrid.chorus@uba.de" target="_blank">ingrid.chorus@uba.de</a><br><br>Office and lab address:<br><br>Corrensplatz 1<br>14195 Berlin</p></div></div><br>