Science Advisory Panel

USEPA. Review of American Cyanamid Company s Probablistic Assessment of Chlorfenapyr and Request for Guidance on Problem Formulation. In FIFRA Science Advisory Panel Report, SAP99-05. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (1999). Also available on the World Wide Web http //www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/1999/september/finalrpt.pdf. 

It is reported here that the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is charging that the Consumer Product Safety Commission s science advisory panel is moving too slowly, and relying on inadequate data, in evaluating the safety of a phthalate plasticiser, diisononyl phthalate. 

Uncertainty may also affect the credibility of ecological risk assessment procedures. In the late 1970s, the USEPA presented a risk assessment for the use of granular carbofuran on com, including a detailed list of field studies and incidents. The Eederal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Science Advisory Panel concluded there was insufficient information to justify restricted use labeling and recommended further testing. Nearly 20 years later, the accumulation of additional field studies and incidents provided sufficient evidence such that approvals for use of carbofuran were withdrawn. 

US SAP] USEPA Science Advisory Panel. 1999. Report of the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting, September 23, 1999. Session V. SAP Report No. 99-05E. Washington (DC) US SAP. 

USEPA (1999b). Overview of Issues Related to the Standard Operating Procedures for Residential Exposure Assessment, Presented to the USEPA Science Advisory Panel for the meeting on September 21, 1999, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Washington, DC, USA. 

Partially Closed Meeting of FIFRA Science Advisory Panel," Federal Register, 50, 25783, EPA, 1985. 

Both Caruthers and Hood serve on the science advisory panel of another firm. Applied Molecular Genetics, known as Am Gen, of Newbury Park, California. 

At a time when science and policy ought to be converging on solutions to acid rain, they have diverged. Every major science advisory panel studying the problem has recommended substantial reductions in SO2 and NOx emissions in order to reduce the acidity of rain. Yet the opponents of acid rain controls — the midwestem utilities, the coal industry, and their supporters in the Reagan Administration and Congress — have called only for "more research."... 

Several science advisory panels have recommended reducing... 

Revelle, R., Broecker, W., Craig, H., Keeling, C. D., and Smagorinsky, J. (1965). Atmospheric carbon dioxide. In "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment," Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President s Science Advisory Committee, The White House. Washington, DC, p. 126. 

Panel on Herbicides, President s Science Advisory Committee, Report on... 

The initial concern for the possible hazard to humans exposed to 2,4,5-T was precipitated by teratologic studies conducted by Bionetics Research Institute under contract from The National Cancer Institute (2). In these studies, large doses of 2,4,5-T were administered to pregnant rats and mice for nine of the 21 days of pregnancy. The incidence of fetal abnormalities was slightly higher in the treated animals than in control animals. Later tests indicated that these abnormalities (cleft palate) may have been caused by 27 8 ppm of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloro-dibenzo-p-dioxin present as a contaminant in the 2,4,5-T sample used in the Bionetic study (3). After the results of the study were made known, the Panel on Herbicides of the President s Science Advisory Committee studied the total 2,4,5-T situation. The report of this committee was published in March, 1971 (4). 

Singer has received numerous awards for his research, including a Special Commendation from the White House for achievements in artificial earth satellites, a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award, and the first Science Medal from the British Interplanetary Society. He has served on state and federal advisory panels, including five years as vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres. He frequently testifies before Congress. 

Lee summarized the panel discussion at a meeting of the Environmental Health Sciences Advisory Council which concentrated primarily on the etiology of CWP (1). One area of research recommended by the panel was what component(s) is associated with a specific rank of coal that results in increased incidence of CWP. Warden, in discussing the medical aspects of CWP, stated that the fate of the particulates retained... 

Good is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a past president of the American Chemical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Institute of Chemists and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She has been active on the boards of directors of such groups as the Industrial Research Institute, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research. She has also served on advisory panels for the National Research Council, the National Bureau of Standards, the National Science Foundation Chemistry Section, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA, and on the executive committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

Dr. Baker has been active in the American Society of Pharmacognosy and is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society of Chemical Ecology, and Sigma Xi. He has served extensively as peer reviewer for granting agencies and journals and on advisory panels for several government agencies. He... 

Panel Member of President s Science Advisory Board on Atmospheric Sciences. 

Report of the Panel on Chemicals and Health of the President s Science Advisory Committee, 73-500, NSF, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC, 1973. 

Advisory Committee in 1978-1982, and was a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board Executive Committee during this period. He was chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Panel on Abatement of Particulate Emissions from Stationary Sources, and chair of the NRC Subcommittee on Photochemical Oxidants and Ozone. In addition, he spent time at other Universities for example, he was a Fulbright Scholar in 1960 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1969, both at the University of Paris. 

I am placing myself squarely on the premises set forth by the preceding speakers and the House Committee report. I feel justified in doing this because of some earlier associations with the issues we are considering, which at the same time explain my inclusion on this program. During my membership on the President s Science Advisory Committee, I had occasion to familiarize myself with this field as chairman of a Survey Panel, the conclusions of which were in complete harmony with what we have heard today and in fact may in some measure have contributed to the current re-evaluation. Even so, I am... 

Report on 2,4,5-T, A Report on the Panel on Herbicides of the President s Science Advisory Committee," Executive Office of the President, Office of Sciences and Technology, March 1971. 

During World War II he directed an NDRC project on oxygen production, was Assistant Research Director of the Rubber Administration, Chief of the Navy Jet Propulsion Panel, Deputy Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Cuided-Missiles Committee, and Chief of the Office of Field Service. He later was a member of the President s Science Advisory Committee and the Department of the Interior s Saline Water Committee. 

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