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Biomonitoring and Body Burden:
Free Public Lecture

22 March 2007
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

The opening plenary of the 2007 Gordon Cain Conference, "New Chemical Bodies: Biomonitoring, Body Burden, and the Uncertain Threat of Endocrine Disrupters," is free and open to the public.

Schedule

5:00 p.m.

Welcome

  Ronald Brashear, Director of the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation

 


5:05 p.m.

Introduction

  Jody Roberts, Gordon Cain Fellow in Technology Policy and Entrepreneurship, Chemical Heritage Foundation
   
  "Disruption of Reproductive Development by Phthalates: Implications
for Human Health"
  Paul D. Foster, Deputy Director of the National Toxicology Program's
Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction at the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
   
  "Principles of Biomonitoring and its Application in Assessing Exposures
to Potential Endocrine Disrupters"
  Larry Needham, Chief of the Organic Analytical Toxicology Branch of the
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control
   
  "A Revolution in the Environmental Health Sciences: New Opportunities
for Disease Prevention"
  John Peterson Myers, CEO and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health
Services
   

7:00 p.m.

Reception

For further information concerning lecture content, please contact:

Jody Roberts
Gordon Cain Fellow
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Fax: 215-925-6195
jroberts@chemheritage.org