PA PLANS FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS

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>FOR RELEASE:   FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1996
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>EPA SPONSORS PUBLIC MEETING ON PLANS 
>FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON  ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
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>EPA is holding a two-day public meeting with interested stakeholder 
>groups to discuss plans to form an advisory committee to assist the 
>Agency in establishing an appropriate screening and testing program 
>for pesticides and other chemicals to determine their potential to 
>disrupt the endrocrine functions in humans and wildlife.  The meeting 
>will be in Washington, D.C., Oct. 31-Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 
>the Sheraton City Centre Hotel, 1143 New Hampshire Ave. N.W. (3 blocks 
>NE of the Foggy Bottom Metro station at New Hampshire Ave. and M St.).  
>Recent legislation including the Food Quality Protection Act and 
>amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act call for a strategy from EPA 
>to screen and test chemicals for potential endocrine disrupting risk 
>to humans, fish and wildlife.  EPA believes that the best way to 
>address these issues is to create a broadly representative advisory 
>committee (under the Federal Advisory Committee Act) involving the 
>chemical industry, federal and state government agencies, and other 
>scientific experts from academia and environmental, labor and health 
>organizations. The advisory committee is expected to meet 
>approximately every two months over the next year.  Persons who want 
>to attend the two-day meeting should register with Donald Walker no 
>later than Oct. 24 (301-907-3844, extension 247).  Reservations will 
>be accepted on a first-come basis.  Today's announcement was published 
>in the Federal Register on Oct. 17.
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