Membership:
3M Corporation; Arkema, Inc.; BASF Corporation; Bath and Body Works; Bayer CropScience; Biogen, Inc.; The Dow Chemical Company; DuPont Haskell Laboratory for Health and Environmental Sciences; ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc.; The Procter & Gamble Company; Syngenta Crop Protection Inc.
Public Participation:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health; Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Erlangen (Berlin); Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Mississippi State University; National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences; University of Vermont College of Medicine; University of Washington; US Environmental Protection Agency (National Center for Computational Toxicology; National Exposure Research Laboratory; National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory; Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances); US Food and Drug Administration, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Activities:
In September 2004, the HESI Biomonitoring Technical Committee, the US EPA, CDC, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) co-sponsored an International Biomonitoring Workshop which was designed to explore the processes and information needed for placing biomonitoring data into perspective for risk assessment purposes, with special emphasis on integrating biomarker measurements of exposure, internal dose, and potential health outcome. Over 100 scientists from US government agencies, international groups, academia, and industry participated. Conclusions, research needs, and case studies from the International Biomonitoring Workshop are described in a mini-monograph published in Environmental Health Perspectives (see “Publications” below).
Four Work Groups form the basis for the Biomonitoring Technical Committee’s current activities. A brief statement of objectives for the work groups follows:
Generic Criteria/BEI Work Group: Formulate generic criteria using comparisons of biological monitoring methodologies in occupational and environmental settings. Develop one or more case studies.
Interpretive Framework Matrix Work Group: Develop a framework which identifies and links information sets and identifies appropriate biomarkers. Validate the framework using case studies.
Children’s Biomonitoring Data Work Group: Manage and collect insights from a collaborative, cross-center project (US EPA, CDC, academic centers, etc.) to analyze organophosphate biomonitoring data.
Nanosensor Technology Work Group: Identify micro- and nanoscale sensor technologies for measuring and monitoring human exposures to environmental agents.
2005 Outreach:
44th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, New Orleans, LA
Meeting of the NAS/NRC Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants, Washington, DC
US Environmental Protection Agency Science Forum, Washington, DC
31st Annual Summer Toxicology Forum, Aspen, CO
42nd Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology, Eurotox 2005, Krakow, Poland
Publications:
Angerer J, Bird MG, Burke TA, Doerrer NG, Needham L, Robison SH, Sheldon L, and Zenick H. 2006. Meeting Report. Strategic biomonitoring initiatives: moving the science forward. Toxicol Sci (accepted).
Albertini R, Bird M, Doerrer N, Needham L, Robison S, Sheldon L, and Zenick H. 2006. The use of biomonitoring data in exposure and human health risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9056. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9056/abstract.html
Robison SH, Barr DB. 2006. Use of biomonitoring data to evaluate methyl eugenol exposure and its relationship to the environmental public health continuum. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9057. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9057/abstract.html
Hughes MF. 2006. Biomarkers of exposure: a case study with inorganic arsenic. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9058. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9058/abstract.html
Calafat AM, McKee RH. 2006. Integrating biomonitoring exposure data into the risk assessment process: phthalates (diethyl phthalate and di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate) as a case study. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9059. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9059/abstract.html
Butenhoff JL, Olsen GW, Pfahles-Hutchens A. 2006. The applicability of biomonitoring data for perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) to the environmental public health continuum. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9060. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9060/abstract.html
Birnbaum LS, Cohen Hubal EA. 2006. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers: a case study for application of biomonitoring data to characterize exposure. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9061. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9061/abstract.html
Barr DB, Angerer J. 2006. Potential uses of biomonitoring data: a case study using the organophosphorus pesticides chlorpyrifos and malathion. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9062. [Online 12 June 2006] http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2006/9062/abstract.html