Center Task Force

Some conception of the magnitude of the Torch supply tasks can be derived from the fact that 10,020 U.S. troops sailed as part of Eastern Task Force and 70,800 as part of Center Task Force in convoys originating in the United Kingdom. Many of these troops had to be equipped in part and almost all had to be inspected in the United Kingdom. Also, the War Department directed the European theater to set up twenty-two maintenance shipments of CWS supplies totaling 3,133 deadweight tons to be sent in twelve North African resupply... 

The Salerno action is based on (i) Fifth Army Cml Sec Daily Jnl, 9, 10, 15 Sep 43, CMLHO (2) Memo, Barker for CMLHO, 4 Feb 47, sub Answers to Questions (3) Lt Hirrie A. James, USNR, Observations During Opn Avalanche, Center Task Force Southern Task Force, 24 Oct 43, CWS 314.7 Smoke Opns. 

Industrial Chemical Prioritization and Determination of Critical Hazards of Concern. Technical Annex and Supporting Documents for International Task Force (IIF)40, Industrial Chemical Hazards Medical and Operational Concerns. UASCHPPM Report 47-EM-6154-03. US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 2003. 

Other important documents in HSTAT include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference Reports and Technology Assessment Reports the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) resource documents the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT) Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIP) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP) Prevention Enhancement Protocols System (PEPS) the Public Health Service (PHS) Preventive Services Task Force s Guide to Clinical Preventive Services the independent, nonfederal Task Force on Community Services Guide to Community Preventive Services and the Health Technology Advisory Committee (HTAC) of the Minnesota Health Care Commission (MHCC) health technology evaluations. 

In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies formed the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force in 2000 and issued an action plan for reducing medical errors. In 2001, former HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced a Patient Safety Task Force to coordinate a joint effort to improve data collection on patient safety. The lead agencies are the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 

Fisher, A., M.T. Pavlova, and V.T. Covello, eds. 1991. Evaluation and Effective Risk Communications Workshop proceedings. EPA/600/9-90/054. Interagency Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease, Center for Environmental Research Information. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. 

Skousen, J. G., J. C. Sencindiver, and R. M. Smith. 1987. Procedures for Mining and Reclamation in Areas with Acid-Producing Materials. The Surface Mine Drainage Task Force and the West Virginia University Energy Research Center, p. 43. Morgantown, WV. 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), The Nuclear Black Market, Global Organized Crime Project, Task Force Report, Washington, D.C. CSIS, 1996. 

Last but not least there is an urgent need to "harmonize" or "standardize" all these procedures so that improved interlaboratory comparisons can be achieved. Such procedures include, cell isolation, growth substrates, cell culture media including the mode of medium application. A first initiative in this direction has been taken by ECVAM (European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods, a section of the European Commission Institute for Health and Consumer Protection) by founding a task force dealing with the creation of guidelines for "Good Cell Culture Practice" [247, 248]. 

Glinsman WH, Irausquin H, Park YK. Evaluation of Health Aspects of Sugars Contained in Carbohydrate Sweeteners Report of Sugars Task Force. Washington, DC Health and Human Services Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 1986. 

Chun. J.S. and Nee per-Brad ley, T.I.. (1991). Developmental Toxicity Evaluation of piperonyl butoxide administered by Gavage to CD (Sprague-Dawley) Rats. Unpub lished report no. 54-586 from Bushy Run Research Center. Undertaken for the PBO Task Force, Washington DC. USA. 

Herman ski, S.J. and Wagner. C.L. (1993), Chronic Dietary Oncogenicity Study with Pipeionyl Butoxide in CD-I Mice. Unpublished report no. 91N1M34 fixnn Busily Run Research Center, Pennsylvania, USA Undertaken for the PBO Task Force, Washington DC. LISA. 

Selim. S. (1995). Absorption, Excretion, and Mass Balance of t Piperonyl But oxide front lwo Different Fonnuhttion.s alier Dermal Application to Healthy Volunteers. Unpublished report no. P0594006 from Biological Test Center. Irvine, California, USA. Undertaken for the PRO Task force, Washington DC, USA. 

HsULermann. D.R. (1996). Amended Piperonyl Butoxide Analytical Phase on [he Raw Agricultural Commodity Residue Evaluation of Piperonyl Butoxide Pyrclhrins Applied As Fyrenone Crop Spray to Leafy Vegetables, Biological lest Center Pharmaaj LSR International Inc., vol. II. (Protocol No. L8G09A003). Undertaken for the PBO Task Force, Washington IX . USA-... 

Selim, S. (1995b). Nature of the Residue in Meat and Eggs of MC-Piperonyl Butoxidc in Laying Hens Following Oral and Dermal Application. Unpublished report no. P0993008 from biological Test Center Irvine, CA 92714, USA. Undertaken for the PBO Task Force, Washington DC, USA. 

A steering committee, chaired by the associate commissioner for compliance and composed of the associate commissioners, the bureau directors, the chief counsel, the director of the National Center for Toxicological Research, and the executive director for regional operations, directed the program. Four task forces—the Toxicology Laboratory Monitoring Task Force, the Investigator Sponsor Task Force,... 

Contaminants of Potential Concern (COPC) Committee of the World Trade Center Indoor Air Task Force Working Group, provides guidelines and methodologies for setting health based standards for chemicals in settled indoor dust. 

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