US Senate Committee to hold public exposure to toxic chemicals hearing

In the USA, the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health – part of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – is holding a hearing on the "Current Science on Public Exposures to Toxic Chemicals”. The hearing will take place on 4 February. Witness scheduled to give evidence include: Stephen Owens assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances; Henry Falk acting director of the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; John Stephenson a director at the Government Accountability Office; and Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.

A second session of the hearing will include input from: Molly Jones Gray, a biomonitoring study participant; Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group; Charles McKay of the Division of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine at Hartford Hospital; and Tracey J. Woodruff, associate professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California

• EPW Committee hearings website