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Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations and World Health Organization, Summary of Evaluations Performed by the Joint EAO/WHO Expert Committee on Eood Additives (JECFA 1956-2005), International Life Sciences Institnte, Washington, 2006. 

Since the first description of the BMD approach in health risk assessment of chemicals, the method has been modified and extended by many others. Central in this work was a workshop organized by the International Life Science Institute (ILSl) and reported in Barnes et al. (1995) and a workshop organized by the US-EPA Risk Assessment Eomm resulting in a US-EPA report (US-EPA 1995). No consensus was reached at these workshops on which variation and extension of the BMD approach is most appropriate for the use in human health risk assessment. 

A number of private organizations fund biomonitoring programs for research purposes and to assess exposure at the individual level. The efforts of the American Chemistry Council s Long-Range Research Initiative, the International Life Sciences Institute Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (ILSI-HESI) Biomonitoring Technical Committee, and private laboratories that cater to individual requests to biomonitor for chemicals are highlighted below. 

Dr. Meskin served as a science advisor to the Food, Nutrition and Safety Committee of the North American branch of the International Life Sciences Institute for a 3-year term (2000-2002). He has been a long-time member of the advisory board of the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics at California State University, Northridge. Dr. Meskin was involved with the Southern California Food Industry Conference for many years as an organizer, chair, moderator, and speaker. He has also served as a member of the medical advisory board of the Celiac Disease Foundation. 

In the meantime, Professor K. Abe at the University of Tokyo organized the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Japan-endowed chair Functional Food Genomics (with Professor Y. Nakai in charge) which aims to explore a new dimension of food science in the form of academia-industry consortium (Nakai etal. 2010). This laboratory has publicized DNA microarray data on soy protein isolate (Tachibana et al. 2005), cocoa as a whole (Matsui et al. 2005), sesamin (Tsuruoka et al. 2005), apple polyphenol (Ohta et al. 2006), grape seed (Sano et al. 2007), royal jelly as a whole (Narita et al. 2006), fructo-oligosaccharide (Fukasawa et al. 2007), vinegar as a whole (Nakano et al. 2004), tomato (Aizawa et al. 2009), and others. What may be extremely interesting would be the data on inhaled linalool as an aroma that reduces a kind of... 

Figure 1 Phosphorus homeostasis and balance. The intestine, kidneys, and bone are organs Involved in phosphate homeostasis. Fluxes of phosphate ions between blood and these organs are shown. Note the high fluxes in and out of bone each day. To convert phosphorus values from g to mmol, multiply by 32.29 from mg/dl to mmol/l, multiply by 0.3229. Steps enhanced by parathyroid hormone. (Adapted with permission from Anderson JJB, Sell ML, Garner SC, and Calvo MS (2001) Phosphorus. In Bowman BA and Russell R (eds.) Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 8th edn, p. 282. Washington, DC International Life Sciences Institute Press.)...

Whether life sciences IT departments emphasize internal development or external licensing of software, and whether internal development is centralized or delocalized. This is clearly related to the level of homogeneity across an organization and is an issue generally held in tension between extremes. Centralized development and external licensing is attractive in that it allows for efficiency of scale and helps maintain... 

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