Reminder from: DRSG Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DRSG/cal DRSG Teleconference Tuesday March 3, 2009 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Notes: This is a special...
DRSG@yahoogroups.com
Mar 1, 2009 4:55 pm
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DRSG, A revised set of slides is available as .pdf file, at: http://www.sra.org/drsg/docs/NASreport.pdf Please use these slides/link, rather than the one in...
I will be out of the office starting 02/17/2009 and will not return until 03/04/2009. I will have limited access to email and voicemail during this time....
cynthia.m.davin@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:31 pm
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Here is the unedited list of the questions/comments submitted thus far to NAS08report@yahoogroups.com (Harvey, please distribute to the rest of RASS). Note:...
Note: Questions will be addressed at the meeting in the order received. We will address new questions after we have refined/clarified these submitted...
The first SRA/DRSG Seminar held last week discussed the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, "Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment”. ...
DRSG members, Please see the attached notes from the 3-3-09 DRSG Teleconference. The next DRSG Teleconference is scheduled for April 7, 2009 at Noon EDT, call...
We will be having a business meeting this coming Tuesday, April 7, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm edt. The following agenda items will be included: 1. Program...
Hello BMDS User: You are receiving this BMDS News announcement because you are a registered user of the EPA benchmark dose software (BMDS). As a member of the...
Dear colleague: The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Dose-Response Specialty Group is sponsoring a student award for graduate-student research. The research ...
DRSG officers: I've updated the webpage listing the officers: http://www.sra.org/drsg/drsgcomm.htm Please check and be sure I have correctly put in your info. ...
DRSG members, Please see the draft notes from today's conference call. Please let me know if any corrections, revisions, or additions need to be made....
Perhaps we should look at the issue a little more broadly than suggested by either set of questions. I suggest we not start with assuming that there are...
Kenny Crump
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Apr 29, 2009 8:25 pm
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Dear Colleagues I agree with Kenny that we should look at these questions more broadly. For example, toxic effects are known by toxicologists to have...
Mike Dourson
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May 1, 2009 6:41 pm
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Mike, Not sure if you mean to assert that `*some* toxic effects are known by toxicologists to have thresholds *under some circumstances*' or whether you are...
Kevin Brand
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May 1, 2009 7:30 pm
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Thanks Jim. That is helpful. The evidence you cite would appear to support a "some toxic effects are believed to have thresholds under some circumstances,"...
Kevin Sorry to be tardy in response to your nice inquiry. The basic tenet of toxicology is that ³All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a ...
Michael Dourson
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May 5, 2009 5:08 pm
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The Society of Toxicology Risk Analysis Specialty Section (SOT RASS) will be hold a teleseminar Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from 3:00 - 4:30 entitled "Science and...
Feder, Paul I
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May 5, 2009 7:11 pm
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Mike, I can hardly control myself not to join this dicussion (as you may imagine), but I have some other priorities right now. I just wanted to pose one...
On "thresholds": from a practical standpoint, there will always be some level of exposure below which the incidence of adverse health effects in any 'exposed'...
Please comment on proposed sessions, topics, speakers. I like the idea of having a DRSG track at this year's meeting, with the microbial sessions to follow...
Coleman, Peg
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May 6, 2009 4:17 pm
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Michael, Thanks for your reply. It helps me get a better understanding of your position, and challenges me to better articulate mine. I too have spoken with...
Kevin Brand
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May 7, 2009 9:17 pm
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If you would do a repeated dose study with a mixture of say 20 or 30 OP esters, each of them at their own NOAEL, I can garantee you that there will be...
Wout Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I do not have time right now for any in-kind response due to a pending workshop on developing RfDs for acetanilide...