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2007 National Fish Forum
Proceedings of the 2007 National Forum
This document provides the proceedings of the 2007 National Forum on Contaminants in Fish, held in Portland, Maine July 23-26, 2007. Contains abstracts of presentations, copies of the slides used by presenters, transcriptions of questions and answers raised, and other informaton presented at the forum.
- Cover (PDF) (1 page, 750 K)
- Front Matter and Table of Contents (PDF) (8 pp., 65 K)
- Section I—Agenda (6 pp., 70 K)
- Section II-A—Welcome (PDF) (13 pp., 1.0 MB)
- Update on EPA's Advisory Program
- Welcome to Maine
- Reducing Mercury in Maine Fish
- Section II-B—Sampling and Analysis Issues (PDF) (54 pp., 2.6 MB)
- Mercury Measurements Using Direct-Analyzer Methodology
- A Biopsy Procedure for Determining Mercury in Fish Tissue with Results from a Western USA Survey
- Mercury in Fish in the Gulf of Mexico
- Report on EPA's National Lake Fish Tissue Survey
- EPA Pilot Study on Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Fish Tissue:
- PPCPs as Emerging Contaminants
- EPA PPCP Fish Pilot Study
- Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Fish from the Delaware River Drainage Basin
- Distribution of PBDE Flame Retardants in Fish and Water from Washington Rivers and Lakes
- Section II-C—Biomonitoring (PDF) (59 pp., 2.8 MB)
- Biomonitoring Session Introduction: Content and Context
- Methylmercury and Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Co-occurrence of Dietary Sources and the Role of Fish
- Risk Assessment at the Biomonitoring Crossroads—Summary of NRC Report
- Fish Consumption Advice Goes Local: How Human Biomonitoring and Local Risk Management Improve Public Health Policy in Alaska
- Blood Mercury Levels in New York City Adults
- Fish Consumption and Mercury Exposure Among Washington Residents—Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey and the Women's Diet Survey
- Increased Levels of Mercury Associated with High Fish Intakes among Children of Different Ethnic Groups from Vancouver
- PBDE Biomonitoring of Great Lake Charter Captains
- Section II-D—Risk Assessment/Toxicology (PDF) (33 pp., 774 K)
- Health Risks and Toxicological Effects of Mercury - A Summary from the 2006 International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant
- Australia's Advisory Statement on Methylmercury in Fish
- Updating Health Canada's Human Health Risk/Benefit Assessment and Risk Management Strategy for Mercury in Retail Fish
- IRIS Toxicological Reviews of Several PBDE Congeners
- Section II-E—Health Benefits of Fish Consumption (PDF) (30 pp., 1.2 MB)
- Omega-3 Fatty Acid Deficiency among Pregnant Women: Biochemical and Dietary Approaches to Identifying Women at Risk and Implications for Infant Development
- Fish, n-3 Fatty Acids and Dementia
- Fish Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk
- Section II-F—Risks and Benefits (PDF) (56 pp., 6.2 MB)
- Introduction—Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption
- Risk Benefit Evaluations of Fish Consumption
- Maternal Seafood Consumption in Pregnancy and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Childhood (ALSPAC Study)
- Project Viva: Maternal Prenatal Fish Intake, Blood Mercury and Child Cognition at Age 3 Years
- Summary on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Report, Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks
- Moving Beyond the Reference Dose to Compare Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption
- Synthesis for Fish Consumption Advisory Impacts
- Panel Discussion on Risks and Benefits
- Section II-G—Risk Communication (PDF) (72 pp., 7.1 MB)
- Evaluating Risk Communication for Fish Advisories
- Awareness of Mercury among Pregnant Women (EPA/FDA National Study)
- Application of Hair-Mercury Analysis to Determine the Impact of Seafood Advisory in the Faroes
- State Efforts to Evaluate Impacts of Fish Advisories:
- Great Lakes Basin: Assessing a Decade of Fish Consumption Advisory Efforts
- Minnesota Fish Consumption Advisory Evaluation
- Maine's Evaluation of Risk Communication Efforts
- New Mothers' Nutritional Awareness Survey
- Communicating the Indiana Fish Consumption Advisory
- Fish Advisories and Water Quality Standards: Tribal Perspectives
- Aroostook Band of Micmacs: Fish Consumption Advisory Issues
- Developing and Communicating Fish Consumption Guidelines for Penobscot Nation Territory Waters
- 2006 Food Safety Survey: Analysis of Seafood Questions (EPA/FDA)
- Section II-H—PCBs and Dioxins (PDF) (35 pp., 2.5 MB)
- WHO—2006 Re-evaluation of TEF for Dioxins and Dioxin-Like Compounds
- Use of Total-PCB Fish Measurements in Dioxin-Like PCB Related Fish Advisories and Risk Assessment
- Measures of PCBs in Edible Fish Tissues: A Comparative Risk Analysis
- Developmental Health Effects of PCBs in a Superfund Community (not included)
- Consistent Advice for Striped Bass and Bluefish along the Atlantic Coast
- PCB Body Burdens Associated with Adverse Outcome in Epidemiological Studies
- Appendices
- A—Final Participant List (PDF) (18 pp., 118 K)
- B—Poster Abstracts (PDF) (42 pp., 308 K)
