Workshop on Chemical Selection, June 2008

Agenda

June 9, 2008, 9:00 am – 3:15 pm (agenda REVISED May 27, 2008)
Elihu M. Harris State Office Building,
1515 Clay Street, 2nd Floor, Room 1, Oakland, CA 94612

There will be opportunities for the public to ask questions and comment during the workshop.

• • 9:00 am – Welcome
    • Joan Denton, Ph.D., Director, Cal/EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
    • Workshop Overview Lauren Zeise, Ph.D., OEHHA
  • 9:15 am – Description of Biomonitoring Programs
    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
      John Osterloh, M.D., M.S., CDC National Center of Environmental Health, Division of Laboratory Sciences

    Handouts

    • Presentation by John Osterloh - download as pdf
    • Pirkle JL, Osterloh J, Needham LL, Sampson EJ. National exposure measurements for decisions to protect public health from environmental exposures. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2005;208(1-2):1-5
    • CDC Chemicals List - download as pdf
    • Metabolites Measured by NHANES - download as pdf
    • Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals 2005
    • Canadian Program
      Douglas Haines, M.S., Health Canada’s Safe Environments Programme

Handouts

• • Presentation by Douglas Haines - download as pdf
  • Chemicals Measured by Canada
• 10:30 –10:45 am – Break
  • German Federal Environmental Agency
    Kerstin Becker, Ph.D.,
  • German Environmental Hygiene Department
    Marike Kolossa, Ph.D., German Environmental Hygiene Department

    Handouts

  • German Program Presentation - download as pdf
  • Chemicals Measured in the German Environmental Survey
  • Kolossa-Gehring M, Becker K, Conrad A, L üdecke A, Riedel S, Seiwert M, Schulz C, Szewzyk R. German Environmental Survey for Children (GerES IV)--first results. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2007 Oct;210(5):535-40. Epub 2007 Sep 17
  • Schulz C, Conrad A, Becker K, Kolossa-Gehring M, Seiwert M, Seifert B. Twenty years of the German Environmental Survey (GerES): human biomonitoring--temporal and spatial (West Germany/East Germany) differences in population exposure. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2007 May;210(3-4):271-97. Epub 2007 Mar 7
• 11:45 am – Lunch (on your own)
• 12:45 pm – Discussion on Selection of Chemicals and Other Biomarkers

  Moderator, Michael Lipsett, M.D., California Department of Public Health

• 2:00 – 2:15 pm – Break
• 3:10 pm – Conclusion
  George V. Alexeeff, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.,
  OEHHA Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs
• 3:15 pm – Workshop Adjourned