Biomonitoring California Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting, March 2021

Agenda

Biomonitoring California
Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting
March 8, 2021: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

This meeting will be held by webinar; please join by 9:55 am.
All times shown below are approximate and subject to change.

 

Logistics (~9:55 am)
        Stephanie Jarmul, MPH, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) 

Welcome (~10:00 am)
        Lauren Zeise, PhD, Director, OEHHA

Overview of the Meeting (~10:05 am)
        Meg Schwarzman, MD, MPH, Chair, Scientific Guidance Panel (SGP)

Program Update and Options for Statewide Surveillance (~10:10 am)
        Presentation: Nerissa Wu, PhD, California Department of Public Health
        Panel and Audience Questions

Introduction: Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QACs) as Potential Priority Chemicals (~11:15 am)
        Document: Potential Priority Chemicals: Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
        Background Materials:
              Potential Designated Chemicals: Quaternary Ammonium Compounds 
              Preliminary Screening of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds 
        Introductory Presentation: Shoba Iyer, PhD, OEHHA
        Panel and Audience Questions

QACs: Detection in the Environment and Degradation Processes (~11:35 am)
        Presentation: Bill Arnold, PhD, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo‑ Engineering, University of Minnesota
        Panel and Audience Questions

Lunch (~12:15 pm)

Increased Human Exposure to QACs during the COVID-19 Pandemic (~1:15 pm)
        Presentation: Amina Salamova, PhD, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
        Panel and Audience Questions

Analytical Methods for Measuring QACs in Biomonitoring Studies (~1:55 pm)
        Presentation: Libin Xu, PhD, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington
        Panel and Audience Questions

Break (~2:35 pm)

Evaluating the Safety of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QACs) (~2:50 pm)
        Presentation: Keith Hostetler, PhD, Trinity Consultants and John DeSesso, PhD, Exponent, Inc
        Panel and Audience Questions

 Quaternary Ammonium Compounds as Potential Priority Chemicals (~3:30 pm)
        Overview of Potential Priority Chemicals Document on QACs: Shoba Iyer, PhD, OEHHA
        Panel Questions
        Public Comment
              ADBAC Issues Steering Committee Comments on Analytical Methodology for QACs
              Women's Voices for the Earth Comments on QAC Exposures to Vulnerable Populations
              Women's Voices for the Earth Comments on FDA Evaluation of ADBAC Data Gaps 
        Additional Public Comment (received after March 8, 2021) 
              Hostetler KA, Fisher LC, Burruss BL (2021). Prenatal developmental toxicity of alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium
                  chloride and didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride in CD rats and New Zealand White rabbits. Birth Defects
                  Res, 21 March 2021, doi: 10.1002/bdr2.1889. Epub ahead of print.
              Teratology Working Group (2021). Status Report on the Systematic Review of Quaternary Ammonium Disinfectant
                  Compounds for Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity.
        Panel Recommendation

Open Public Comment (~4:20 pm)

Wrap-up and Adjournment (~4:30 pm)