Some of the speakers at last year's DGAC conference held out the promise of less new regulation and more harmonisation in the years to come. Given how many new provisions they had to explain to delegates this time around, this would probably be no bad thing. The Dangerous Goods Advisory Council (DGAC) held its 2005 annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia this past November 9 to 11. The venue was a last-minute switch after Hurricane Katrina made the original venue in New Orleans unusable but the conference agenda remained unchanged. There were some encouraging aspects to the meeting: not just the size of the crowd but also the fact that there were many new, younger faces in attendance; and the discussions on security aspects (HCB February 2006, page 14), which revealed how industry is responding in practice to the requirements of the regulators and how the authorities, in their turn, are fine-tuning the provisions.
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