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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Assessment of the Allergenic Potential of Genetically Modified Foods
December 10 – 12, 2001 • Chapel Hill, North Carolina


Agenda  Participants  

Agenda

Monday, December 10
 
7:30 a.m. Registration 
8:30 a.m.  Welcome 
Christopher Portier, Environmental Toxicology Program (ETP), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 

Linda Birnbaum, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

KEYNOTE
Chair: Christopher Portier, ETP, NIEHS  
8:45 a.m.  What are the Issues? 
Dean Metcalfe, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 
9:15 a.m.  Assessing the Allergenicity of Genetically Engineered Foods: Summary of a Symposium at the National Center for Food Safety and Technology 
Steven Gendel, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 

SESSION I:  CLINICAL ASPECTS AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF FOOD ALLERGY 
Chair: Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins University 
9:40 a.m.  Clinical Spectrum of Food Allergy 
Hugh Sampson, Mount Sinai School of Medicine 
10:30 a.m.  Assessment of Allergenicity to Genetically Modified Foods and Novel Proteins 
Samuel Lehrer, Tulane University Health Sciences Center 
11:00 a.m.  Occupational Inhalational Allergenicity and Food Allergy 
Leonard Bernstein, University of Cincinnati 
11:30 a.m.  Clinical and Laboratory Methods in the Assessment of the Allergenicity of Foods 
Robert G. Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 
1:00 p.m.  Can Post-Marketing Surveillance Provide Useful Information About the Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods: The StarLink Corn Experience 
Carol Rubin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

SESSION II:  TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF NOVEL PROTEINS
Chair: Dennis Hinton, FDA 
1:40 p.m.  Digestion Stability as a Criterion for Protein Allergenicity Assessment
Tong-Jen Fu, FDA 
2:10 p.m.  Structure and Stability of the Major Peanut Allergens 
Gary Bannon, Monsanto Company 

SESSION III:  REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS 
Chair: Christopher Portier, ETP, NIEHS 
3:00 p.m.  Short Presentations Followed by a Panel Discussion 
Kathleen Jones, FDA  
John Kough, EPA 
Katherine Sarlo, Procter & Gamble Company 
Val Giddings, Biotechnology Industry Organization 
James Astwood, Monsanto Company 

SESSION IV:  RISK COMMUNICATION 
Chair: Dori Germolec, NIEHS 
4:15 p.m.  What Consumers Think About Biotechnology 
Thomas Hoban, North Carolina State University 
4:35 p.m.  Public-Interest Perspective on Allergenicity 
Rebecca Goldburg, Environmental Defense 
5:00 p.m.  Open Discussion 

Tuesday, December 11
 
SESSION V:  TOXICOLOGIC METHODS OF SAFETY ASSESSMENT 
Chairs: Ian Kimber, Syngenta and Dennis Hinton, FDA 
8:30 a.m. Overview 
8:40 a.m.  Oral and Intraperitoneal Exposure of Brown Norway Rats 
Andre Penninks, TNO Nutrition and Food Research  
9:15 a.m.  Oral and Systemic Exposure of BALB/c Mice 
Ian Kimber, Syngenta 
9:50 a.m.  Peanut Allergy in a Swine Model 
Ricki Helm, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 
10:45 a.m.  Assessment of Allergenicity in Dogs I 
Bob Buchanan, University of California, Berkeley 
11:20 a.m.  Allergenicity in Dogs II: Spontaneous Food Hypersensitivity Allergy in Colony of Dogs 
Bruce Hammerberg, North Carolina State University 

SESSION VI:  BREAKOUT GROUP MEETINGS 
12:00 p.m.  Charge to Breakout Groups 
Mary Jane Selgrade, EPA 

What are the Research Needs in the Areas of: 
  1. Use of Human Clinical Data
    Chair: Charlotte Madsen, Danish Veterinary and
    Food Administration

  2. Animal Models to Assess Food Allergy
    Chair: Oscar Frick, University of California,
    San Francisco

  3. Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect
    Chair: Genevieve Bondy, Health Canada

  4. Sensitive Populations
    Chair: Met Dong, FDA

  5. Models of Dose Response
    Chair: Rob Frederick, EPA

  6. Post-Market Surveillance
    Chair: Fujio Kayama, JICHI Medical School
1:15 p.m.  Address Questions, Research Needs and Areas of Particular Focus 
(Within Breakout Groups)
3:00 p.m.  Observer Question and Discussion Session 
(Within Breakout Groups)

Wednesday, December 12
 
  SESSION VII:  BREAKOUT GROUP PRESENTATIONS 
Chairs: Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins University and Mary Jane Selgrade, EPA 
8:30 a.m.  Presentations 
11:15 a.m.  Meeting Summary and Discussion 
Consensus Building and Agreement on the Way Forward 
12:30 a.m.  Meeting Adjourns 

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Participants

John Acquavella
Monsanto Company
Department of Toxicology
800 N. Lindbergh - F3WB
St. Louis, MO 63167
john.f.acquavella@monsanto.com
Sattar Alcasey
Access Business Group
Department of Toxicology
7575 Fulton Street
Ada, MI 49355
sattar.alcasey@accessbusinessgroup.com
William Allaben
National Center for Toxicological
Research
Office of Scientific Coordination & NTP Liaison
3900 NCTR Road
Jefferson, AR 72079
wallaben@nctr.fda.gov
Jonathan Allen
North Carolina State University
Department of Food Science
Box 7624
Raleigh, NC 27695
jon_allen@ncsu.edu
Nathan Anderson
U.S. General Accounting Office
NRE
441 G Street
Washington, DC 20548
AndersonN@gao.gov
Lori Artim
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
lori.artim@syngenta.com
James Astwood
Monsanto Company
Product Safety Center
800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63167
james.d.astwood@monsanto.com
Gary Bannon
Monsanto Company
Product Safety Center
800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63167
gary.a.bannon@monsanto.com
Leonard Bernstein
University of Cincinnati
Department of Medicine
MSB 7366
P.O. Box 670563
Cincinnati, OH 45267
bernstil@email.uc.edu
Raymond Biagini
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
MS-C26
Cincinnati, OH 45226
reb4@cdc.gov
Linda Birnbaum
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NHEERL
U.S. EPA Mailroom
Mail Drop 66
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
birnbaum.linda@epa.gov
Genevieve Bondy
Health Canada
Health Products & Food Branch
Postal Locator 2204D2
Ontario, K1A 0L2
CANADA
Genevieve_Bondy@hc-sc.gc.ca
Elizabeth Boykin
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ORD/NHEERL/ETD/ITB
86 Alexander Drive, MD-92
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
boykin-elizabehth@epa.gov
Bob Buchanan
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
111 Koshland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
view@nature.berkeley.edu
Brian Buckley
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Central Administration
170 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
bbuckley@eohsi.rutgers.edu
Dennis Carroll
U.S. General Accounting Office
441 G Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20548
carrolld@gao.gov
Cathy Clabby
The News & Observer
103 W. Main Street
Durham, NC 27701
cclabby@nando.com
Anne Clark
118 Ashland Avenue
River Forest, IL 60305
JClarke345@aol.com
Christopher Cordle
Ross Products
Immunology Research & Development
D 104140 RP4-3
625 Cleveland Avenue
Columbus, OH 43215
chris.cordle@rossnutrition.com
Rebecca Dearman
Syngenta Central Toxicology Laboratory
Research Department
Alderly Park, Macclesfield
Cheshire SK10 4TJ
United Kingdom
rebecca.dearman@syngenta.com
Mel Dong
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Biotechnology and GRAS
200 C Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20204
wdong@cfsan.fda.gov
Mary Eubanks
Duke University
Department of Biology
Box 90338
Durham, NC 27708
eubanks@duke.edu
Cecilia Fernandez
National Food Processors Association
1350 I Street, N.W., #300
Washington, DC 20005
cfernandez@ntpa-food.org
Tony Flood
International Food Information Council
Department of Food Safety
1100 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 430
Washington, DC 20036
flood@ific.org
Robert Frederick
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NCEA
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 8623D
Washington, DC 20460
frederick.bob@epa.gov
Bill Freese
Friends of the Earth
3206 Shepherd Street
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
billfreese@prodigy.net
Oscar Frick
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Pediatrics
370 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94117
Tong-Jen Fu
Food and Drug Administration
National Center for Food Safety and Technology
6502 S. Archer Road
Summit-Argo, IL 60501
Tong.Fu@cfsan.fda.gov
Venugopal Gangur
Michigan State University
FSHN/NFSTC
302-B GM Trout
East Lansing, MI 48824
gangur@msu.edu
Steven Gendel
Food and Drug Administration
6502 S. Archer Road
Summit-Argo, IL 60501
sgendel@cfsan.fda.gov
Dori Germolec
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27798
germolec@niehs.nih.gov
Val Giddings
Biotechnology Industry Organization
1625 K Street, N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
shiva@pop.net
Timothy Gleason
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ORD/NHEERL
T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
gleason.timothy@epa.gov
timrgleason@home.com
Rebecca Goldburg
Environmental Defense
257 Park Avenue South
New York, NY l0010
bgoldburg@environmentaldefense.org
Lynn Goldman
Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street
Room 8511
Baltimore, MD 21205
Igoldman@jhsph.edu
Daniel Goldstein
Monsanto Company
Department of Toxicology
800 N. Lindbergh - F3WB
St. Louis, MO 63167
daniel.a.goldstein@monsanto.com
Richard Goodman
Monsanto Company
Product Safety Center
800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard
Mail Stop 03F
St. Louis, MO 63167
richard.e.goodrnan@monsanto.com
Bill Grigg
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Bl-C02, Building 31, MSC 2256
Bethesda, MD 20892
grigg@niehs.nih.gov
Doug Gurian-Sherman
Center for Science in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
dgurian-sherman@cspinet.org
David Guyer
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Department of Regulatory Affairs
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
david.guyer@syngenta.com
Roxanne Hall
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD A3-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
hall6@niehs.nih.gov
Robert G. Hamilton
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center
Room 1A-20
5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle
Baltimore, MD 21224
rhamilt@jhmi.edu
Bruce Hammerberg
North Carolina State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology
4100 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC 27612
bruce_hammerberg@ncsu.edu
Michael Hansen
Consumer Policy Institute
Division of Consumers Union
101 Truman Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10703
hansmi@consumer.org
Dianne Hatmaker
BASF Plant Science L.L.C
26 Davis Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
hatmakd@basf.com
Tom Hawkins
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
79 T.W. Alexander Drive
MD EC-12
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
hawkins@niehs.nih.gov
Ricki Helm
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
Department of Pediatrics
1120 Marshall Street, Slot #512-13
Little Rock, AR 72202
HelmRickiM@exchange.uams.edu
Barbara Henry
Aventis CropScience
Department of Toxicology
2 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
barbara.henry@aventis.com
Corinne Herouet
Aventis CropScience
Department of Toxicology
355 rue Dostoievski BP A53
Sophia-Antipolis 06903
France
corinne.herouet@aventis.com
Bette Hileman
Chemical & Engineering News
1155 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
bjh95@acs.org
Dennis Hinton
Food and Drug Administration
FDA Laboratory
8301 Muirkirk Road
Laurel, MD 20708
dhinton@cfsan.fda.gov
Jason Hlywka
Cantox Health Sciences International
2233 Argentia Road, Suite 308
Mississauga, Ontario L5N2X7
Canada
jhlywka@cantox.com
Thomas Hoban
North Carolina State University
Box 8107
Raleigh, NC 27695
tom_hoban@nscu.edu
Michael Holsapple
Dow Chemical Company
Health and Environment Research Lab
1803 Building
Midland, MI 48674
mholsapple@dow.com
Audrey Ichida
Food and Drug Administration
JIFSAN
200 C Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20204
aichida@cfsan.fda.gov
Guadalupe Iglesias
Cantox Health Sciences International
2233 Argentia Road, Suite 308
Mississauga, Ontario L5N2X7
Canada
giglesias@cantox.com
Hilary Jackson
North Carolina State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Clinical Sciences
4700 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, NC 27606
hilary_jackson@ncsu.edu
Xiaoxu Jiang
Syngenta
RAGA
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
xiaoxu.jiang@syngenta.com
Kathleen Jones
Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
200 C Street, S.W.
HFS-206
Washington, DC 20204
Kathleen.McAveney@cfsan.fda.gov
Daniel Jones
U.S. Department of Agriculture
CSREES
Waterfront Center, Room 3444
800 9th Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20024
ddjones@reeusda.gov
Juliana Jones
Center for Food Safety
660 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
Suite 302
Washington, DC 20003
ijones@icta.org
Rhoda Kagan
McGill University
Department of Pediatric Allergy
2300 Tupper Street, Room C-511
Montreal, Quebec H3H 1P3
Canada
rhoda.kagan@muhc.mcgill.ca
Fujio Kayama
JICHI Medical School
Department of Health Science
Division of Environmental Immunology & Toxicology
YAKUSHIJI 3311-1
Minami-Kawachi, Tochigi 329-0498
Japan
kayamaf@jichi.ac.jp
Ian Kimber
Syngenta
Central Toxicology Laboratory
Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire
SK10 4TJ
United Kingdom
ian.kimber@syngenta.com
Petra Koken
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
LCBRA
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
koken@niehs.nih.gov
John Kough
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Pesticide Program
Ariel Rios Building, 7511C
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
kough.john@epa.gov
Gregory Ladics
DuPont Company
Haskell Laboratory
P.O. Box 50
Newark, DE 19714
gregory.s.ladics@usa.dupont.com
Amy Lambert
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
Centers for Health Research
6 Davis Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
alambert@ciit.org
Samuel Lehrer
Tulane University Health Sciences
Center
Department of Medicine/Clinical Immunology
1700 Perdido Street - SL 57
New Orleans, LA 70112
sblehrer@tulane.edu
Robert Luebke
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Immunotoxicology Branch
U.S. EPA Mailroom
Mail Drop 92
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
luebke.robert@epa.gov
Susan Macintosh
Aventis CropScience
Regulatory Affairs & Science
2 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
susan.macintosh@aventis.com
Charlotte Madsen
Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
Institute of Food Safety and Toxicology
19, Morkhoj Bygade
2860 Soborg
Denmark
cm@fdir.dk
Adrianne Massey
A. Massey & Associates
6823 Falconbridge
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
amasseyco@aol.com
Pat Mastin
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
DERT
79 T.W. Alexander Drive
Bldg. 4401, 3rd Floor, MD-23
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
mastin@niehs.nih.gov
Patrick McGourty
United Agri Products
419 18th Street
Greeley, CO 80631
Pat.McGourty@UAP.com
Ravi Menon
General Mills
Department of Research and Development
James Ford Bell Tech. Center
Minneapolis, MN 55427
ravi.menon@genmills.com
Dean Metcalfe
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
10 Center Drive, Room 11C205, MSC 1881
Bethesda, MD 20892
dean_metcalfe@nih.gov
Geoffrey Mueller
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233
MD MRI-01
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
mueller3@niehs.nih.gov
Martha Mullins
Syngenta
Regulatory Department
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
martha.mullins@syngenta.com
Kenneth Olden
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD A3-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
olden@niehs.nih.gov
Vanessa Peachee
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
527 North 12th Street
Box 980613
Richmond, VA 23219
vpeachee@immunotox.vabiotech.com
Andre Penninks
TNO Nutrition and Food Research
Department of Experimental Immunology
P.O. Box 360
3700 AJ Zeist
Netherlands
penninks@voeding.tno.nl
Ana Patricia Pineda
Secretaria de salud/Dir. Gral de Salud Ambiental
Mariano Escobedo
366 Col. Anzures
Mexico, D.F. 11590
apinedaz@correoweb.com
Christopher Portier
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD A3-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
portier@niehs.nih.gov
Laura Pirvalle
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Department of Regulatory Affairs
P.O. Box 12257
3054 Comwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
laura.privalle@syngenta.com
P. Isaac Rabbani
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Risk Assessment
200 C Street, S.W.
HFS-308
Washington, DC 20204
PIR@cfsan.fda.gov
Mark Rasmussen
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Research Service
National Animal Disease Center
P.O. Box 70
Ames, IA 50010
mrasmuss@nadc.ars.usda.gov
Richard Raybourne
Food and Drug Administration
CFSAN
8301 Muirkirk Road
Laurel, MD 20708
Richard.Raybourne@cfsan.fda.gov
Yvette Rebollosso
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD B3-09
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
rebollo1@niehs.nih.gov
Joan Rothenberg
Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology
1331 H Street, N.W.
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
jrothenberg@pewagbiotech.org
Carol Rubin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Studies Branch
1600 Clifton Road, MS E-23
Atlanta, GA 30333
chr1@cdc.gov
Fernando Rubio
Abraxis
2935 Byberry Road
Hatboro, PA 19040
frubio@abraxiskits.com
Denise Sailstad
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ORD/NHEERL/ETD/ITB
86 Alexander Drive, MD-92
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
sailstad.denise@epa.gov
Hugh Sampson
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
One Gustave L Levy Place
New York, NY 10029
hugh_sampson@mssm.edu
Angie Sanders
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD A3-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
sanders5@niehs.nih.gov
Katherine Sarlo
Procter & Gamble Company
Human Safety Department
P.O. Box 538707
Cincinnati, OH 45014
sarlo.k@pg.com
Dave Schmidt
International Food Information Council
Department of Food Safety
1100 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 430
Washington, DC 20036
schmidt@ific.org
Joseph Scimeca
General Mills
737 Pelham Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55114
jscimeca@pillsbury.com
MaryJane Selgrade
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development
US EPA Mailroom
MD-92
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
selgrade.maryjane@epamail.epa.gov
Deborah Sheely
U.S. Department of Agriculture
CSREES
1400 Independence Avenue
Stop 2241
Washington, DC 20250
dsheely@reeusda.gov
Trinia Simmons
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
LCBRA
MD A3-06
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
simmons4@niehs.nih.gov
Jeff Stein
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Regulatory Department
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
jeff.stein@syngenta.com
Henry-York Steiner
Syngenta
Department of Regulatory Affairs
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
henry-york.steiner@syngenta.com
Todd Stoltz
Applied Phytologics, Inc.
4110 N. Freeway Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95834
tstoltz@apinc.com
Hank van Loveren
National Institute of Public Health and
the Environment
Laboratory of Pathology &
Immunobiology
P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA
Bilthoven
Netherlands
h.van.loveren@rivm.nl
Carolyn Van Pelt
Pioneer / DuPont Company
Haskell Laboratory
P.O. Box 50
Newark, DE 19808
carolyn.s.vanpelt@usa.dupont.com
Elizabeth Vavasour
Health Canada
Toxicology Research Division
Banting Building, PL 2204Dl
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L2
Canada
Elizabeth_Vavasour@hc-sc.gc.ca
Demetra Vlachos
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Department of Regulatory Affairs
P.O. Box 12257
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
demetra.vlachos@syngenta.com
Kim Waddell
National Research Council
2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
KWADDELL@nas.edu
Marsha Ward
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Immunotoxicology Branch
86 T.W. Alexander Drive, MD-92
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
ward-marsha@epa.gov
Debra Warnick
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Department of Regulatory Affairs
6338 Highway 20-26
Nampa, ID 83687
debi-warnick@syngenta.com
James Weaver
Food and Drug Administration
CDER
MOD1
8301 Muirkirk Road
Laurel, MD 20708
weaver@cder.fda.gov
Andrea Weir
Food and Drug Administration
Center for Veterinary Medicine
Division of Human Food Safety, HFV-153
7500 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855
aweir@cvm.fda.gov
Carmen Diaz Westphal
National Food Processors Association
1350 I Street, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
mdiaz@nfpa-food.org
Kimber White
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
527 North 12th Street
Box 980613
Richmond, VA 23219
klwhite@vcu.edu
Mary Wolfe
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
111 T.W. Alexander Drive
P.O. Box 12233, MD A3-02
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
wolfe@niehs.nih.gov
Jupiter Yeung
National Food Processors Association
1350 I Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
jyeung@nfpa-food.org
Jennifer Zawodny
Syngenta
Product Registration
3054 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
jennifer.zawodny@syngenta.com

Sponsors

Office of Research and Development,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

National Toxicology Program,
Department of Health and Human Services

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
National Institutes of Health

Office of Rare Diseases,
National Institutes of Health

Center for Food Safety and Nutrition,
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Organized by the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Toxicology Program
Research Triangle Park, NC

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Scientific Organizing Committee
Dori Germolec, National Toxicology Program, NIEHS
Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Dennis Hinton, Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, FDA
Ian Kimber, Central Toxicology Laboratory, Syngenta
MaryJane Selgrade, NHEERL, EPA

NIEHS Conference Support Staff
Roxanne Hall
Yvette Rebollosso
Angie Sanders

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