Dr. George Daston, Victor Mills Society Research Fellow, Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH Dr. Costel Denson, Managing Member, Costech Technologies, LLC, Newark, DE Dr. Otto C. Doering III, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Dr. Michael Dourson, President, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH Dr. David A. Dzombak, Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor of Environmental Engineering , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Dr. T. Taylor Eighmy, Senior Vice President for Research, Office of the Vice President for Research, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Dr. Elaine Faustman, Professor and Director, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Dr. John P. Giesy, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Dr. Jeffrey K. Griffiths, Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA Dr. James K. Hammitt, Professor, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard University, Boston, MA Dr. Barbara L. Harper, Risk Assessor and Environmental-Public Health Toxicologist, and Division Leader, Hanford Projects, and Program Manager, Environmental Health, Department of Science and Engineering, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), West Richland, WA Dr. Kimberly L. Jones, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC Dr. Bernd Kahn, Professor Emeritus and Associate Director, Environmental Radiation Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Dr. Agnes Kane, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI Dr. Madhu Khanna, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Dr. Nancy K. Kim, Senior Executive, Health Research, Inc., Troy, NY Dr. Cecil Lue-Hing, President, Cecil Lue-Hing & Assoc. Inc., Burr Ridge, IL
COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease DPT diffuse pleural thickening EDS energy dispersive spectroscopy EPA Environmental Protection Agency FEV1 forced expiratory volume in one second IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer ICD International Classification of Diseases ILO International Labor Organization IRIS Integrated Risk Information System IUR inhalation unit risk LAA Libby Amphibole asbestos LOAEL Lowest Observed Adverse Effect Level LPT Localized Pleural Thickening MCMC Markov Chain Monte Carlo MOA mode of action NAS National Academy of Sciences NCI National Cancer Institute NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NOAEL No Observed Adverse Effect Level NRC National Research Council NTP National Toxicology Program OR odds ratio ORD Office of Research and Development PCM phase contrast microscopy PCME phase contrast microscopy equivalent POD point of departure RfC reference concentration ROS reactive oxygen species RR relative risk RTW residence time-weighted SAED Selected Area Electron Diffraction SEER Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEM scanning electron microscopy SMR standardized mortality ratio SIR standardized incidence ratio TEM transmission electron microscopy Th1 T Helper Cell Type 1 Th2 T Helper Cell Type 2 TSFE time since first exposure UCL Upper Confidence Limit UF uncertainty factor UFD Database uncertainty factor UFH Human inter-individual variability uncertainty factor UFL LOAEL-to-NOAEL uncertainty factor UFS subchronic-to-chronic uncertainty factor WDS wavelength dispersive spectroscopy XRD X-ray diffraction