The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) is the appointed body for the receipt and processing of product notifications used in the event of emergency health response in the German Poisons Centres.

The product notifications according to Article 45 of the European CLP Regulation as well as on §10 of the national Detergent and Cleaning Agents Act (Wasch- und Reinigungsmittelgesetz) are subject to an expert validation at the BfR. Eventually the product data is forwarded, by the BfR, to the seven German poisons centres to be used in the event of emergency health response. The BfR accepts products, which are outside the scope of any notification obligation and submitted voluntarily, as well. The preparation on submissions of notification dossiers is sometimes challenging and is going to be depicted by reference to real life examples. Experience made by the parties involved is going to be in the focus of the conference with regard, in particular, to the Poison Centres Notification (PCN) procedure.

The conference is going to take place at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), lecture hall Diedersdorfer Weg 1, 12277 Berlin. On-site as well as online attendance is possible (hybrid event). Simultaneous translation (German-English) is provided.

Programme

Presentations from 15.11.2023

Kathrin Begemann, BfR, Berlin
Aktuelle Erfahrungen des BfR mit Produktmitteilungen für die medizinische Notfallberatung – eine Einführung (German)

Esther Feistkorn, Dr. Ronald Keipert, Dr. Sebastian Pfeifer, BfR, Berlin
FAQ zu Produktmitteilungen (German)

Francois Wuyts, Centre Antipoisons, Bruxelles, Belgium
Best Practices for PCN notifications according to the Poison Centres - Best practice examples and UFI irregularities

Dr. Rafael Wagner, Giftinformationszentrum Nord, Göttingen
Bedeutung der Produktinformationen in der Giftberatung (German)

Kathrin Begemann, BfR, Berlin
Kooperation ECHA – BfR am Beispiel einer statistischen Auswertung der Produktmitteilungen zur Verbesserung des Risikomanagements (German)

Philip Stefl, GeSi Software GmbH, Würzburg
Der richtige Einsatz von Interchangeable Component Groups (ICG) aus der Erfahrung eines Software-Herstellers (German)