Biomonitoring California Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting, November 2011

Agenda

Biomonitoring California 
Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting
November 10, 2011 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Cal/EPA Building, Byron Sher Auditorium, 2nd floor
1001 I Street, Sacramento

 Welcome 

George Alexeeff, Acting Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)

Overview of the Meeting 
Ulrike Luderer, Chair, Scientific Guidance Panel (SGP)

Program and Laboratory Updates

• Presentations: California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Environmental Health Laboratory (CDPH), Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (Department of Toxic Substances Control[DTSC])
  • Program Update, CDPH
  • Environmental Health Laboratory Update, CDPH
  • Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Update, DTSC
• Panel Questions
• Public Comment
• Panel Discussion and Recommendations

Biomonitoring for Exposure Assessment:  Challenges and Future Directions

• Presentation: Antonia Calafat, Ph.D., Chief, Organic Analytical Toxicology Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Panel Questions
• Public Comment
• Panel Discussion

Lunch

Presentations by Washington and New York State Biomonitoring Programs

• Washington Environmental Biomonitoring Survey 
  Blaine Rhodes, Office Director, Environmental Laboratory Sciences, Washington State Public Health Laboratories
• Expanding the Capability and Capacity for Biomonitoring at the Wadsworth Center, NY State Department of Health
  Kenneth M. Aldous, Ph.D., Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
• Panel Questions
• Public Comment
• Panel Discussion

Break

Update on Maternal and Infant Environmental Exposure Project (MIEEP or Chemicals in Our Bodies Project)

• Presentation:  Tracey Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Director, UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
• Panel Questions
• Public Comment
• Panel Discussion and Recommendations

Summary of Results Return Testing in the Firefighter Occupational Exposures (FOX) Project

• Presentation:  CDPH
• Panel Questions
• Public Comment
• Panel Discussion and Recommendations

Open Public Comment Period

Wrap up

Adjournment