Beijing 2009 Fire Retardants Conference

August 22, 2009

Presentations given at the 2009 Symposium on Flame Retardants in China.  Click the titles for English and Chinese language versions

AGENDA      
 
Arlene Blum, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
The Fire Retardant Dilemma in China:  Human Health and the Global Environment
阻燃剂面临的问题    ——防火、人类健康与环保

Linda Birnbaum, PhD, DABT, ATS, Director, U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
An Overview of Halogenated Fire Retardant Research 
卤代阻燃剂研究概述
 
Susan Shaw, DrPH, Director, U.S. Marine Environmental Research Institute (MERI)
A Comparison Of Fire Retardant Levels And Known Health Effects in Wildlife and Humans 
卤代阻燃剂不同含量水平及所致健   康效应的比较--人和野生动植物
 
Tom Webster, DSc,  Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
From Product to Person, How to Measure Human Exposure to Persistent Halogenated Chemicals 
从产品到人体的 PBDEs暴露
 
Eddy Zeng, PhD, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry) 
A big picture view of halogenated chemical exposures in China 
对中国持久性卤代化合物暴露   的一点见解

Tom Webster, DSc, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Epidemiology of Flame Retardants (mostly PBDEs)
阻燃剂的流行病学研究 (大部分是PBDEs)

Professor Xingbiao Guo, Chairman, Dept. of Occupational Environment and Health, Beijing University
An overview of studies on health effects of traffic-related air pollution in China
中国交通相关大气污染对健康影响研究的概述

Panel Discussion with speakers
How to protect human health and the environment from  halogenated flame retardant chemicals.