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California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program

March 17, 2011 Biomonitoring California Workshop
[02/18/2011]

Download the agenda as a PDF file here.

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Download the transcript of the March 17 workshop here.

Download the summary of workshop discussion highlights here.

Location: Elihu M. Harris State Office Building, Auditorium, 1515 Clay Street, Oakland. For directions, visit:
http://www.buildings.dgs.ca.gov/ElihuMHarrisbuilding/BuildingInformation/Direction.htm

Biomonitoring California Workshop
Understanding and Interpreting Biomonitoring Results
Elihu M. Harris State Office Building, Auditorium
1515 Clay Street, Oakland, California

March 17, 2011, 9 am to 5 pm

9:00 Welcome
George Alexeeff, Acting Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

9:10 Overview of workshop goals and introduction of morning speakers

9:25 Biomonitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Complexities in Interpreting Data
Dana Barr, Emory University

9:55 "Is It Safe?": New Ethics for Reporting Personal Exposures to Environmental Chemicals
Ruthann Rudel, Silent Spring Institute

10:25 Break

10:45 Making Sense of Human Biomonitoring Data
Tina Bahadori, American Chemistry Council

11:15 Morning questions and discussion

11:45 Lunch

1:00 Introduction of afternoon speakers

1:10 Interpreting Biomonitoring Data in a Risk Assessment Context Using Biomonitoring Equivalents
Lesa Aylward, Summit Toxicology

1:40 Importance of Pharmacokinetics and Distributional Analysis for Understanding Biomonitoring Results
Dale Hattis, Clark University

2:10 Understanding and Interpreting Biomonitoring Results in the Context of Sustainable Communities
Amy Kyle, UC Berkeley

2:40 Break

3:00 Afternoon questions and discussion

3:30 Panel discussion (all speakers) with audience participation

4:45 Wrap up

5:00 Adjourn

For questions on the workshop, contact: biomonitoring@oehha.ca.gov

 

 
 
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