General Chemical Hazards Exposure Assessment

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety which was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 8 to 12 October 2007. The meeting concluded that ensuring safe feed is an important component of efforts to reduce and prevent food safety hazards and indicated several potential measures to ensure safe feed. Agenda of the meeting, list of participants, experts' resumes and list of documents are included as appendices. The report is being translated in French and Spanish. Printed copies may be requested from: Daniela.Battaglia@fao.org. (more) Publication Year: 2008	Feb 26, 2008
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Approaches for the Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and Supporting Data in Risk Assessment (External Review Draft 2005) Draft report on the evaluation and use of PBPK models in human health risk assessment. Appendices include "Algorithms for predicting chemical-specific parameters for PBPK models," "List of publications relevant to PBPK modeling of environmental chemicals and its use," and "Partition coefficients and metabolic rate constants for PBPK modeling of environmental." Comments are requested. The public comment period has been extended in 70 FR 48950. (more) Deadline: Friday, October 14, 2005 Publication Month: June 2005	Aug 17, 2005
	Exponent, Inc.	Calendex™ Aggregate exposure modeling tool for chemical hazards.	Dec 9, 2004
	Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency	Chemicals in the Environment: OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets These fact sheets for selected environmental chemicals describe exposure routes, production and consumption of products, effects of exposure (including dose-response information, toxicity, and carcinogenicity), regulation information, contact information, and more. (more)	Sep 3, 2002
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Chemical-Specific Factors Database of chemical-specific factors that can be used in dose calculations. The database may be searched by the chemical-specific factor, analytes, and CAS numbers. You may view the output in an onscreen table or may download a tab or comma delimited file. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation	Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures Report on indicators from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico related to children's environmental health. Topics covered include pesticide residues, waterborne diseases, and more. Appendices include "Overview of Recommended Indicators from the CEC Council," "153 Matched Chemicals," and more. Individual country reports are also available. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 Publication Year: 2006	Jan 31, 2006
	Microbiological and Chemical Exposure Assessment Research Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Dietary Exposure Potential Model Model and database system for estimating dietary exposure to chemical residues. Data is included from government-sponsored national food intake surveys and chemical residue monitoring programs. The user can add additional foods or chemicals and associated data, and the user can import food diaries for exposure analysis. There is also an option to include exposure from tap water. (more)	Jul 11, 2003
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Example Exposure Scenarios This document presents exposure scenarios for different exposure pathways and demonstrates the application of data from the Exposure Factors Handbook in estimating exposures. For each scenario, an exposure algorithm, exposure factor inputs, calculations, and exposure characterization and uncertainties are presented. Ingestion pathways described include contaminated homegrown vegetables, homegrown tomatoes, beef, dairy products, drinking water, fish, and breastmilk. (more) Publication Month: April 2004	Sep 16, 2004
	International Workshop on Total Diet Studies (3rd : 2004 : Paris, France)	GEMS/Food Total Diet Studies: Report of the 3rd International Workshop on Total Diet Studies, Paris, France, 14-21 May 2004 Report of this workshop on total diet studies. Annexes include "Summary of Selected Presentations," "Recommendations of the 2nd International Total Diet Study Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, 4-15 February, 2002," and more. (more) Publication Year: 2005	Apr 5, 2005
	Risk Assessment Forum, Environmental Protection Agency	Guidance on Selecting Age Groups for Monitoring and Assessing Childhood Exposures to Environmental Contaminants Guidance document that provides a set of age groupings of children to consider in exposure and risk assessments. Includes discussion of how to apply the age groupings in exposure and risk assessment. There is an appendix entitled "Preliminary Reevaluation of Exposure Factors Data for Children." The peer review document, draft report, EPA responses to comments, and related workshop report are also available from this page. (more) Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2006 Publication Month: November 2005	Feb 17, 2006
	Division of Data Services, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Healthy People . . . tracking the Nation's health This page provides data, documentation, and publications from Healthy People 2010 and Healthy People 2000. Focus groups for Healthy People 2010 include Food Safety, Cancer, Environmental Health, Health Communication, Nutrition, and more. To access data for Healthy People 2010, follow the link for DATA2010; you may log on to CDC WONDER as an anonymous user. (more)	Jul 17, 2002
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Human Health Risk Exposure Model This tool uses exposure concentrations to calculate doses and risks. The equations for performing this analysis are also available for different exposure scenarios. Exposure through consumption of fish can be found in the RECREATIONAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section, and exposure through the consumption of homegrown produce can be found in the RESIDENTIAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	National Food Centre, Teagasc	National Food Residue Database: NFRD Database of data on veterinary drugs, prohibited substances, pesticides, heavy metals, dioxins and PCBs, mycotoxins, and other contaminants from Irish monitoring and surveillance programs or studies and surveys. (more)	Jun 22, 2005
	New Zealand Food Safety Authority	New Zealand Total Diet Survey This page provides information about the 2003-04 New Zealand Total Diet Survey, in which foods are analyzed in the form they are consumed in order to estimate exposure to chemical residues, contaminants, and nutrients. Links are provided to the report from the 1997/98 New Zealand Total Diet Survey as well as to similar studies conducted by other countries. (more)	Oct 1, 2003
	Panel on Plant protection products and their Residues, European Food Safety Authority	Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues to Evaluate the Suitability of Existing Methodologies and, if Appropriate, the Identification of New Approaches to Assess Cumulative and Synergistic Risks from Pesticides to Human Health with a View to Set MRLs for those Pesticides in the Frame of Regulation (EC) 396/2005 Opinion adopted on April 15, 2008 resulting from evaluating and possibly refining existing methodologies for assessing risks of exposure to two or more pesticides in combination, particularly in the context of setting MRLs according to Regulation (EC) 396/2005. (more) Publication Date: Friday, May 30, 2008	Jun 5, 2008
	Exposure Modelling Subcommittee, IPCS Harmonization Project Exposure Assessment Working Group, International Programme on Chemical Safety	Principles of Characterizing and Applying Human Exposure Models Draft report for comment on exposure modeling for environmental pollutants and food additives. Publication Month: November 2004	Jan 4, 2005
	National Toxicology Program, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	Report on Carcinogens Report on substances that are or may be human carcinogens. It includes carcinogenicity, exposure, and regulations by Federal agencies to limit exposures. It also includes a list of names and synonyms of known carcinogens and substances reasonably anticipated to be carcinogens, information on manufacturing processes, occupations, and exposure circumstances known to be carcinogens, a listing of substances removed from the report, and a listing of substances reviewed but not recommeded for listing in the report. (more)	Aug 14, 2002
	Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment	TERA Staff Publications Citations to publications related to noncancer risk assessment, cancer risk assessment, chemical-specific assessment, exposure assessment, mixtures risk assessment, metabolism, mutagenicity, alternatives to animal testing, respiratory toxicology, physical hazards, information resources and risk assessment tools, databases, commentaries, and TERA reports. Links are provided to many of the documents. (more)	May 29, 2003
	GEMS/Food, Food Safety Department, World Health Organization	Total Diet Studies: a Recipe for Safer Food Brochure on total diet studies, including what they are, why to do them, costs and benefits, examples of priority contaminants, and more. (more) Publication Year: 2005	May 31, 2005
	Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Total Diet Study Data on dietary intake of food contaminants, including pesticide residues, industrial chemicals, toxic and nutritional elements, vitamins, and radionuclides. (more) Publication Month: September 2004	Aug 31, 2001
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Toxicity Profiles Database of toxicity profiles based on information from the EPA's Integrated Risk Information Systm (IRIS) and Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST) and other sources. The profiles are presented in three formats with varying depth of coverage and technical level of language. They may be used to find exposure pathways, carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic human health effects, and dose response information for the available chemicals. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, January 1, 1980	Aug 27, 2002
	Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency	Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) Program intended to provide public access to data on the health risks to children from exposures to certain chemicals. The website includes information on who is participating and how to participate, how to access assessments, how to prepare and submit assessments, and more. (more)	May 28, 2003

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