National Toxicology Program

NTP Update

• NTP Update, April 2007
• Press Reports on the Review of NTP Draft of TR 546 - Sodium Dichromate Dihydrate at the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors on May 16, 2007

NTP Contracts

• Review of NTP Contracts
• Statement on the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) and Sciences International (SI)
• NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Working Group for Review of NTP Contracts
• Draft Working Group Report
  

NTP Study Nominations

• March 29, 2007 Federal Register notice
• Memo to Board dated May 18, 2007
• NTP Toxicology Study Nomination Procedures
• Background Material for NTP Testing Program Nominations
• Artificial Butter Flavoring Mixture and Certain Components: Diacetyl and Acetoin
  Background
  Public Comments
  
• Naturally Occurring Asbestos and Related Mineral Fibers
  Background
  Public Comments
• Nanoscale Silver
  Background
  Public Comments
  
• o-Phthalaldehyde
  Background
  Public Comments
  
• Draft NTP Research Concept: Artificial Butter Flavoring Mixture and Certain Components: Diacetyl and Acetoin
• Draft NTP Research Concept: Naturally Occurring Asbestos and Related Mineral Fibers
• Draft NTP Research Concept: Nanoscale Silver
• Draft NTP Research Concept: o-Phthalaldehyde

NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM)/Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)

• Five-Year Plan (2008-2012)
• SACATM Working Group Report on the NICEATM-ICCVAM Five-Year Plan
  

Implementation of Workshops and NTP Retreat Recommendations

• Animal Models
• NTP Workshop: Animal Models for the NTP Rodent Cancer Bioassay: Stocks and Strains - Should We Switch?
  King-Herbert, A and Thayer, K (2006) Toxicological Pathology 34: 802-805
• The Wistar Han Rat
• Biomarkers
• Inclusion of Biomarkers for Detecting Perturbations in the Heart, and Lung and Lipid/Carbohydrate Metabolism in National Toxicology Program Studies
• Dunnick, J K, Thayer, K A and Travlos, G S (2007) Toxicological Sciences (in press)
• Reproductive Studies
• NTP Workshop: Hormonally-Induced Reproductive Tumors -- Relevance of Rodent Bioassays
• Draft Study Designs for Routine Perinatal (in utero/ lactational) Exposure

NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting December 1, 2006

• Minutes from the Meeting of the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors held on December 1, 2006