[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3470]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
National Toxicology Program
National Toxicology Program (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors
Meeting; Review of Draft Technical Reports on Alternating Magnetic
Field Studies in Rodents.
Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of the next
meeting of the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors' Technical Reports
Review Subcommittee on March 11, 1998, in the Conference Center,
Building 101, South Campus, National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS), 111 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m., and is open to the
public. The agenda topic is the peer review of draft Technical Reports
of long-term toxicology and carcinogenesis studies and shorter-term
mechanistic studies in rodents on 50 Hz and 60 Hz magnetic fields (EMF)
from the National Toxicology Program.
Background
The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI) in 1988 nominated 60 Hertz (Hz) (power line frequency)
electric and magnetic fields (EMF) to the NIEHS/NTP for evaluation in
NTP toxicology and carcinogenesis studies. This nomination was prompted
by reports suggesting an association between EMF exposure and increased
risk for childhood leukemia as well as reports on mammary tumors in
rodent models for experimental carcinogenesis. In response, the NTP has
conducted a series of conventional rodent toxicity and cancer studies.
After the NTP studies started, the Congress passed an Energy Policy Act
(Section 2118 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992; 42 USC 13478) which
provided for an accelerated research program. Under this act,
additional studies were conducted to explore the possibility that
magnetic fields could promote breast cancer in rats.
Agenda
There will be an orientation to the NTP study process followed by
peer review of the draft Technical Report of the two-year toxicology
and carcinogenesis studies of 60 Hz EMF with four exposure intensities
and sham controls in both sexes of B6C3F, mice and F344/N rats. The
meeting will conclude with peer review of the draft Technical Report of
two 13-week and one 26-week DMBA initiation/magnetic field promotion
studies. Copies of the draft Reports may be obtained, as available,
from: Central Data Management, MD E1-02, P.O. Box 12233, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27709 (919/541-3419), FAX (919/541-3687), email:
[email protected] The Internet EMF RAPID Program web site is http://
www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/home.hym.
Public Comment
Persons wanting to make a formal presentation must notify the
Executive Secretary by telephone, FAX, mail, or email no later than
March 6, 1998, and, if possible, provide a written copy in advance of
the meeting so copies can be made and distributed to all Subcommittee
members, ad hoc expert consultants, and staff, and made available for
attendees at the meeting. Written statements should supplement and may
expand on the oral presentation. Oral presentations should be limited
to no more than five minutes. The Program would welcome receiving
toxicology and carcinogenesis information from completed, ongoing, or
planned studies by others on electric and magnetic fields. Please
contact Central Data Management at the address given above, and they
will relay the information to the appropriate staff scientist.
The Executive Secretary, Dr. Larry G. Hart, P.O. Box 12233,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (telephone 919/541-3971;
FAX 919/541-0295; email hart@niehs.nih.gov) will furnish an agenda, a
roster of Subcommittee members and expert consultants, and a brief
background/overview on the EMF studies program prior to the meeting.
Summary minutes subsequent to the meeting will be available upon
request to Central Data Management.
Dated: February 3, 1998.
Samuel H. Wilson,
Deputy Director, National Toxicology Program.
[FR Doc. 98-3470 Filed 2-10-98; 8:45 am]
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