Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances: Meetings
29th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (ACHS)
10.30 am, 3 June 2008
Rooms A and B, Nobel House, 17 Smith Sq, London SW1P 3RJ
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Draft Agenda
1. 10.30 - Welcome and Introductions
Approval of the Draft Agenda
2. 10.35 - Minutes of the meeting held on 11 March 2008 and matters arising
- ACHS/08/09
3. 10.40 - Feedback from the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum meeting held on 22 April 2008
4. 10.45 - Defra funded project - Costs, Benefits and Trade Offs: Volatile Organic Solvents
- ACHS/08/13 – Defra funded project - Costs, Benefits and Trade Offs: Volatile Organic Solvents
- ACHS/08/13A – draft final report
5. 11.25 - Defra workshop on endocrine disruption
- ACHS/08/16 - Defra workshop on endocrine disruption
6. 11.45 - Nanotechnology – paper submitted by Oxonica on cerium oxide
- ACHS/08/14 – Nanotechnology – paper submitted by Oxonica on cerium oxide
7. 12.05 - Nanotechnology –paper on effects of carbon nanotubes in mice
- ACHS/08/10 - Poland, C.A.; Duffin, R.; Kinloch, I.; Maynard, A.; Wallace, W.A.H; Seaton, A.; Stone, V.; Brown, S. MacNee, W.; Donaldson, K.. 2008. Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity ofmice show asbestoslike pathogenicity in a pilot study. Nature Nanotechnology, published online on 20 May 2008 (http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html)
LUNCH - 12.45 to 13:35
8. 13.35 - Nanotechnology Research Projects – HARN and CELLpen
- ACHS/08/12 - Review of two Defra-funded Research Projects on Nanotechnology
- ACHS/08/12A - outline scoping study to determine whether high aspect ratio Nanoparticles (HARN) – draft final report
- ACHS/08/12B – study to identify physicochemical factors controlling the capacity of nanoparticles to penetrate cells of the respiratory epithelium (CELLpen) – draft final report
9. 14.35 - Chemicals in groups, individual chemicals and UK Coordinated Chemicals Risk Management Programme
- ACHS/08/15 - Chemicals in groups, individual chemicals and UK Coordinated Chemicals Risk Management Programme
- ACHS/08/15A - ~Progress table for chemicals in groups
- ACHS/08/15B – progress table for individual chemicals
COFFEE BREAK - 14.45 to 14:55
10. 14.55 - ACHS review of phosphate recycling
- ACHS/08/11 – phosphate recycling cover note
- ACHS/08/11 – First draft of the review of the feasibility of recycling phosphates at sewage treatment plants in the UK.
- ACHS/08/11 – Phosphorus removal and recovery technologies (in G.K. Morse et al. 1998 The Science of the Total Environment 212: 69-81)
- ACHS/08/14A - Park, B.; Donaldson, K.; Duffin, R.; Tran, L.; Kelly, F.; Mudway, I.; Morin, J.-P.; Guest, R.; Jenkinson, P.; Samaras, Z.; Giannouli, M.; Kouridis, H.; Martin, P. 2008. Hazard and risk assessment of a nanoparticulate cerium oxide-based diesel fuel additive — a case study. Inhalation Toxicology 20: 547-566.
11. 15.55 - AOB
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