Dioxin/PCB Toxicology/Hazard Characterization

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	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
	Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment	Carcinogenicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Statement regarding the carcinogenicity of TCDD based on a review of recent studies and data. Publication Month: July 2001	Nov 11, 2004
	Environmental Defense	Chemical Profile for DIOXIN AND DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS (CAS Number: EDF-018) Fact sheet on dioxin and dioxin-like compounds that compiles data from many government and scientific sources. Sections include "Human Health Hazards," "Rank Chemicals by Reported Environmental Releases in the United States," "Regulatory Coverage," and more. In most cases, links are provided to the original sources when available. (more)	Jan 14, 2004
	Environmental Defense	Chemical Profile for POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (CAS Number: 1336-36-3) Fact sheet on PCBs that compiles data from many government and scientific sources. Sections include "Human Health Hazards," "Hazard Rankings," "Rank Chemicals by Reported Environmental Releases in the United States," "Regulatory Coverage," "Information Needed for Safety Assessment," and more. In most cases, links are provided to the original sources when available. (more)	Jan 14, 2004
	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health	Dioxin Research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Overview of dioxins and the threat they pose to human health, as well as information about current dioxin research at NIEHS. (more)	May 29, 2002
	Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	Dioxins/Furans Toxicologic Summary (Appendix E) This is one of the appendices to a Public Health Assessment, requested by a community group in the vicinity of a wood-treatment facility. This appendix reviews the chemistry, origins, and toxicology of dioxins and furans. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2000	Feb 8, 2005
	Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Dioxins: FDA Strategy for Monitoring, Method Development, and Reducing Human Exposure Overview of FDA's strategies relating to dioxin in foods. Publication Date: Thursday, February 7, 2002	May 29, 2002
	Advisory Forum, European Food Safety Authority	EFSA Advisory Forum Event Berlin: Abstracts and presentations from this public event on topics related to the risk assessment process. Presentations include "Future perspectives in risk assessment: Key challenges and opportunities"/Jouve, Jean-Louis; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Feron, Victor J.; "Future perspectives on risk assessment: key challenges and opportunities"/Silano, Vittorio; "UK review of risks and benefits of fish consumption"/Benford, Diane; "Position of the French Committee of AFSSA on a risk/benefit analysis of GMOs"/Schwartz, Maxime; "Risk-benefit assessment of micronutrients - folic acid"/Flynn, Albert; and "Risk-benefit evaluation lessons for risk management and communication"/Renn, Ortwin. (more) Event Dates: Monday, November 8, 2004 - Tuesday, November 9, 2004 Publication Date: Friday, November 12, 2004	Aug 6, 2004
	Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives	Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and Contaminants: Fifty-seventh Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives Report from a meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives in Rome on June 5-14, 2001. Includes discussion of safety evaluations for certain food additives, revision of specifications for certain food additives, revision of limits for metals in food additives, safety evaluations for flavoring agents, revision of specifications for purity, evaluation of contaminants including chloropropanols, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls, and more. Annexes include "Reports and other documents resulting from previous meetings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives," "Acceptable Daily Intakes, other toxicological information and information on specifications," and "Further information required or desired". (more) Publication Year: 2002	Jan 27, 2004
	Hites, Ronald A., et al.	Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon Report of a study on the concentrations of organochlorine contaminants in farmed and wild salmon. The cumulative risks of consuming farmed and wild salmon and the resulting consumption advice based on EPA methodology are also discussed. Subscription or purchase are required to access the full text. (more) Publication Date: Friday, January 9, 2004	Jan 13, 2004

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