Interagency regulatory liaison group workshop on reproductive toxicity risk assessment.

On September 21-23, 1981, a workshop was held in Rockville, MD, to discuss specific issues related to the evaluation of data for risk assessment in reproductive toxicology (including teratology). The workshop was sponsored by the Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group (IRLG) and was organized by the IRLG Reproductive Toxicity Risk Assessment Task Group.t The Task Group's original charge was to develop criteria to support the consistent interpretation and use of reproductive and teratology data in the assessment of human risk by federal regulatory agencies. Early in the deliberations of the Task Group, it became obvious that a number of issues important to risk assessment were not well addressed in the literature. From these deliberations and from comments in response to a notice of the Task Group's work plan in the Federal Register (1), the workshop was convened to address specific issues that could influence the overall basis for policy-setting in reproductive toxicity risk assessment.