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ToxStrategies is honored to support the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) as it continues to provide science-based safety information to the dietary supplement industry with the latest edition of CRN’s publication, Vitamin and Mineral Safety: 4th Edition. A team of ToxStrategies’ scientists, led by Dr. Rayetta Henderson, developed updated chapters for Zinc, Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), and Vitamin E, as well as an expanded Methodology summary. These initial chapter updates are now available on CRN’s website; read more…

ToxStrategies’ and EpidStrategies’ scientists Deborah Proctor, Julie Panko, Melissa Vincent, Jennifer Bare, Liz Mittal, Stephanie Vivanco, Xiaohui Jiang and Mina Suh recently published a new study assessing lung cancer mortality among aircraft manufacturing workers with long-term, low-level, hexavalent chromium exposure. We reconstructed the exposures of 3,723 aircraft manufacturing workers by job title, including 440 women, and assessed the exposure-response relationship between hexavalent chromium (CrVI) exposure and lung cancer mortality. Elevated lung cancer mortality was observed read more…

ToxStrategies scientists Mandie Kramer, Stephanie Vivanco, Jennifer Bare, and Julie Panko assessed general population exposure to acrylonitrile via the ambient air utilizing EPA’s air toxics monitoring data and tools. This study used EPA’s air monitoring data from its Air Quality System (AQS) from the past 11 years, and modeled data from EPA’s 2020 AirToxScreen assessment. Overall key findings suggest that general population exposure to acrylonitrile from ambient air is low, and that EPA’s AQS data is well suited for evaluating general read more…

ToxStrategies will be presenting at the 13th Annual American Society of Cellular and Computational Toxicology (ASCCT) Meeting in Research Triangle Park, NC, from October 28th to 30th. Drs. Susan Borghoff, Neepa Choksi, Isabel Lea, and Brianna Rivera, and Ms. Tammie Covington are looking forward to the opportunity of networking and discussing their work. Dr. Lea will present work on using computational tools in a human-in-the-loop approach to systematic evidence mapping. She will present a suite read more…

ToxStrategies scientists will participate in The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s (SETAC) 45th Annual Meeting this year, October 20 – 24, in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to the many presentations listed below, Dr. Stephanie Kennedy will co-chair the session titled, “Ensuring Scientific Integrity: Strategies for Assessing Study Reliability and Bias in Ecotoxicology.” Featured Presenters: Alison Gauthier – Examining the Human Health Impacts of Carbon Capture Through Life Cycle Impact Assessment: A Targeted Literature read more…

On September 30 and October 1, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held two virtual public meetings to provide information regarding existing chemical pre-prioritization and prioritization activities under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Prioritization is the initial step in the process of evaluating existing chemicals under TSCA and implementing regulations, and it takes EPA 9–12 months to complete. The purpose of this process is to designate a chemical substance as being either high read more…

Dr. Naomi Sacks, HEORStrategies Vice President, is a co-author on a recently published study, “Impact of Demographics and Insurance Coverage on Schizophrenia Treatment and Healthcare Resource Utilization Within an Integrated Healthcare System.” Using electronic health record data from MedStar Health, an integrated delivery system in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, area, Dr. Sacks and co-authors found high rates of hospitalization, especially among younger patients and those with Medicaid coverage. While most patients were prescribed anti-psychotics, rates of read more…

Ann Verwiel and Alison Gauthier will be at the Proposition 65 Clearinghouse conference in San Francisco, CA, on September 23, 2024.  Ms. Verwiel and Ms. Gauthier have worked on a wide variety of Proposition 65 projects since the proposition was passed in 1986 and will be easy to find at a sponsor table at the conference throughout the day.