Fish and Shellfish Products Hazard Characterization

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
		2,4,6-Tribromophenol and Other Simple Brominated Phenols Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) 66. Summary of potential human health and environmental effects from 2,4,6-tribromopheol and other simple brominated phenols. (more) Deadline: Thursday, December 15, 2005 Publication Year: 2005	Dec 15, 2005
	Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition/Committee on Toxicity	Advice on Fish Consumption: Benefits & Risks Report that weighs nutritional benefits against toxicological risks of fish, especially oily fish, consumption and develops dietary advice regarding fish consumption. Includes discussion of fish consumption in the UK, LC PUFA, fish consumption and cardiovascular disease, dioxins and PCBs, mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and more. Annexes include "Fish consumption in the UK," "DHA requirements in pregnancy and lactation," "Updated COT statement on a survey of mercury in fish and shellfish," "COT statement on brominated flame retardants in fish from the Skerne Tees rivers system," and "COT statement on the tolerable daily intake for dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Sep 3, 2004
	Huss, H.H.; Ababouch, L.; Gram, L.	Assessment and Management of Seafood Safety and Quality Report on risk assessment and management issues associated with seafood. Includes discussion of world seafood production and consumption, food safety systems, hazard identification and characterization, and risk management strategies such as HACCP, FSOs, microbiological criteria, traceability, and more. Appendices include "Assessment of Food Safety Programmes," "Hazard Analysis Worksheet," "HACCP Plan Form," and "Generic HACCP Plan for the Production and Processing of Oysters". (more) Publication Year: 2003	Nov 18, 2004
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Chemical-Specific Toxicity Values Database of chemical-specific toxicity values derived from the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), the Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST), and other sources. You may retrieve data for oral, inhalation, or dermal pathways on reference dose, reference concentration, unit risk, and slope factor. You may also retrieve a variety of other chemical-specific factors, including beef transfer coefficient, fish bioaccumulation coefficient, and milk transfer coefficient. You can format the output as an onscreen table, a tab delimited file, or a comma delimited file. (more)	Aug 27, 2002
	International Programme on Chemical Safety	Coal Tar Creosote Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) on coal tar creosote. Includes discussion of hazard identification, hazard characterization, and exposure considerations. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Jan 3, 2005
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Consumer Advice Gives answers to consumers for common questions regarding foodborne illness, food preparation, food away from home, food storage, seafood, produce and fruit juice, dietary supplements, cosmetics, nutrition and weight loss, food labeling, and more. (more)	May 29, 2002
	Data Gaps Working Group, Risk Assessment Consortium	Data Gaps for Selected Microbial Risk Assessments This document contains lists of data gaps identified in published microbial risk assessments by the US Food & Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety & Inspection Service, and the World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Each data gap is identified by exposure assessment category, the type of information needed, and a brief explanation of the specific data gap. For discussion of needs and gaps in microbial risk assessment as a whole, see Fazil, Aamir, et al. 2005. Microbial risk assessment as a foundation for informed decision-making: a needs, gaps and opportunities assessment (NGOA) for microbial risk assessment in food and water. Available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, December 2, 2004	Apr 6, 2004
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Ecological Benchmarks Database of ecotoxicological screening benchmarks for surface water, sediment, and surface soil applicable to aquatic organisms, soil invertebrates, and terrestrial plants. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Established Regulatory Limits for Surface Water and Groundwater Databases of established chemical-specific regulatory limits for surface water and groundwater are available at the federal level as well as at the state level for Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington. (more)	Aug 27, 2002
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Hazard Identification, Exposure Assessment, and Hazard Characterization of Campylobacter spp. in Broiler Chickens and Vibrio spp. in Seafood - Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Microbiological Hazards in Foods held in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 23-27, 2001. It presents hazard identification, hazard characterization, and exposure assessment considerations for the risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. in broilers and Vibrio spp. in seafood, including a dose-response curve for Vibrio. (more) Publication Date: Monday, September 10, 2001	Aug 26, 2002

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