MEETING SYNOPSIS AND SLIDE PRESENTATIONS CARCINOGEN IDENTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON MAY 29, 2009. A copy of the meeting transcript is available here.
"Fluoride and its salts" was ranked "high" priority, along with 8 of the other 38 chemicals under considerattion. See http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/public_meetings/cic060509.html
The Prop 65 Carcinoge Identification Committee.
Fluoride and its salts (see pdf) are under consideration for inclusion in the California Propostion 65 list of chemicals. The chemicals listed in Prop 65 are known to the State of California to cause cancer, developmental, and/or reproductive effects.
A March 5, 2009, Notice of Chemicals for Prioritization by the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC) was publicized by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which is part of the California Environmental Protection Agency. The CIC is comprised of the state’s qualified experts for carcinogenicity for implementing Proposition 65.
The OEHHA listed Fluoride and its salts along with 37 other chemicals for preliminary toxicological evaluation by the Carcinogen Identification Committee. The CIC is expected to select just four of these chemicals for further study
A 60-day open comment period ended on May 5. Those who submitted comments before the May 5 deadline will be allowed to make comments at the following
MEETING: MAY 29, 2009, 10am-until all business is conducted or 5 pm
Sierra Hearing Room
California Environmental Protection Agency
1001 I Street
Sacramento
Tentative Agenda
At this meeting, the CIC will provide OEHHA with advice on the prioritization of the 38 chemicals for possible preparation of hazard identification materials. Based on the CIC’s advice, OEHHA will select chemicals for preparation of Hazard Identification Materials. These materials will be used by the CIC at future meetings to decide which chemicals to add to the Proposition 65 list. No listing decisions will be made concerning these chemicals at the May 29 meeting.
FAN's submission to OEHHA:
• Evidence supporting prioritizing fluoride for carcinogenicity hazard identification
by Chris Neurath & Paul Connett, May 5, 2009.
• Fluoride and osteosarcoma by Paul Connett. May 4, 2009.
• Revisiting the Fluoride-Osteosarcoma connection in the context of Elise Bassin's findings: Part I
by Dr. Paul Connett, Chris Neurath and Michael Connett
Submitted to the NRC [National Research Council of the National Academies] review panel on the Toxicology of Fluoride in Water. March 2, 2005.
• Revisiting the Fluoride-Osteosarcoma connection in the context of Elise Bassin's findings: Part II
by Paul Connett, Chris Neurath, and Michael Connett
Submitted to the NRC [National Research Council of the National Academies] review panel on the Toxicology of Fluoride in Water. March 21, 2005 (revised April 8, 2005)
• Current epidemiological research on a link between fluoride and osteosarcoma
by Chris Neurath and Paul Connett
OTHER SUBMISSIONS FROM THE
• Environmental Working Group
• Kathleen M. Thiessen, PhD
• Scott Tips, President, National Health Federation
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