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Administrative Advisor's Report

Good Laboratory Practices Information Exchange Group (IEG-71)

January 21, 2000

 

The last official meeting of IEG-71 was March 16-17, 1998, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The IEG sponsored a GLP workshop for faculty and graduate students as the core of the meeting. Following the workshop, the participants met and agreed that a primary objective of the GLP-IEG should be to offer GLP training and exposure to graduate students as well as faculty. Although no formal meeting was held in 1999, Mississippi State University sponsored a Quality Assurance Symposium on March 1-2, 1999 under the auspices of the GLP-IEG. Graduate students and faculty in the Southern Region were invited to attend; the symposium was considered to be a success. The next step for the IEG is decide whether to continue in its current format or to terminate. The administrative advisory has initiated a poll of the participants and will make a recommendation to the SAAESD before the May 2000 meeting. Initial responses favor continuing the IEG but to consider symposia/workshops every other year for certification purposes with airport meetings for information sharing in the alternate years.

 

Charles J. Scifres, Administrative Advisor

The next meeting of the Good Laboratory Practices-Information Exchange Group will be at Mississippi State University. The date and time has not been set yet. The contact person is Euel Coats at 601-325-0650 (fax 601-325-0651) or e-mail ecoats@weedsci.msstate.edu. Watch this space for more information as it is announced.

• Minutes of March 17, 1998, meeting in Tulsa
• Training Opportunities
• Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors home page
• SAAESD Regional Research Project S-286

The Good Laboratory Practices Information Exchange Group was established by the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors to provide a forum for scientists and administrators. As an information exchange group, it is designed primarily for the purpose of communication among the Southern Agricultural Experiment Stations relative to the opportunities and problems associated with the establishment and execution of Good Laboratory Practices on an experiment station-wide basis. Specific objectives include:

(1) create awareness and importance of employing Good Laboratory Practices and promote and facilitate their application in research conducted by scientists in the southern agricultural experiment stations;

(2) develop opportunities for SAES faculty to learn how to comply with GLPs by providing training programs (e.g. workshops at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels) to include how to prepare the basic compliance needs--protocol preparatoin, SOPs, QAU needs and function;

(3) develop liaisons with the industry (chemical registrants, grower groups, etc.) and appropriate federal and state agencies;

(4) provide advice as to size and organization of an appropriate Quality Assurance Unit needed by a particular station; and, develop QA approaches for stations without a QA unit in the form of educational materials;

(5) provide periodic advisory assessments concerning the status of application of GLPs in the Southern Agricultural Experiment Stations.

The GLP-IEG publishes a periodic newsheet and has sponsored a regional workshop. Plans are underway for a meeting in 1998 (See link below about Tulsa meeting.) For more information contact:

* Cathy Bens, GLP-IEG Chair, Environmental Toxicology Department, Clemson University, PO Box 709, Pendleton, SC 29670. Telephone: 864-646-2255; Fax: 864-646-2277; e-mail: cbens@clemson.edu.

* Terry Lavy, GLP-IEG Secretary, Altheimer Laboratory, University of Arkansas, 276 Altheimer Drive, Fayetteville, AR 72703. Telephone: 501-575-9981; Fax: 501-575-3975; e-mail: tlavy@comp.uark.edu.

* Dr. Don Murray, Web Page Coordinator, Department of Agronomy, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74702. Telephone: 405-744-6420; Fax: 405-744-5269; e-mail: dsm@soilwater.agr.okstate.edu.

* C. J. Scifres, Administrative Advisor, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Telephone: 501-575-2034; Fax: 501-575-7263; email: scifres@comp.uark.edu.