9:15 Plenary Lecture by Brenda Eskenazi
Exposure to flame retardants and its health effects in pregnant women and children

Exposure & Toxicology

10:00 Spontaneous Behavior and Learning and Memory of the Adult Mice Offspring after Gestational and Lactation Exposure to the Decabrominated diphenyl ether
ShanHua Chang, L H Tseng, Y J Ho, P C Hsu [90050]

10:15 Canceled

10:30 PBDEs alter species-specific larval settlement pattern of marine benthic polychaetes at environmentally relevant concentrations
Cindy Lam, Rebecca Neumann, Paul KS Shin, Doris WT Au, Pei-Yuan Qian, Rudolf SS Wu [90068]

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 POPs in U.S. Humans and Food
Arnold Schecter, Justin Colacino, Sarah Smith, Keyur Patel, Olaf Paepke, Mathias Opel, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Se Hun Yun, Linda Birnbaum [90014]

11:30 Chlorinated and Brominated Organic Contaminants in Human Breast Milk from Different Regions in India
Gnanasekaran Devanathan, Agus Sudaryanto, Annamalai Subramanian, Tomohiko Isobe, Shin Takahashi, Shinsuke Tanabe [90055]

11:45 Are BFRs responsible for brominated dioxins and furans (PBDD/Fs) in food?
Martin D Rose, Alwyn R Fernandes [90029]

12:00 Oral Bioaccessibility of PBDEs in Dust Using an In Vitro Gastrointestinal Model
Peter Lepom, Maggie Berndt, Anja Duffek, Evelyn Warmbrunn-Suckrow [90145]

12:15 Serum PBDE Levels Measured In Pregnant Women: Associations with Thyroid Hormones
Heather M Stapleton, Sarah Eagle, Amy Wolkin, Marie Lynn Miranda [90032]

12:30 - 14:00  Vendor's Session by Thermo Scientific:
Thermo Scientific DFS: The most sensitive HRGC / HRMS for POPs analysis

12:30 - 13:10
Talk 1: The latest in sectorfield HRMS technology - an introduction and overview
Talk 2: Instrument performance standards and their implication in routine POPs analysis
Takashi Sawashima, Kazuhiro Tonoike, Tatsuko Nakano, Takashi Sugimoto,
Murray Wigmore, Helmut Munster, Heinz Mehlmann, Dirk Krumwiede

13:10 - 14:00  Lunch Sponsored by Thermo Scientific:

14:00 - 15:00  Poster Session

15:00 Plenary Lecture by Richard Hull:
Fire Retardants - necessary, nuisance or nemesis?

Indoor Pollution

15:45 Concentrations of Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs) in Air and Dust from UK Cars - Spatial Variability and Evidence for Degradation
Stuart Harrad, Mohamed A Abdallah, Adrian C Covaci [90030]

16:00 PentaBDE Alternatives in Homes, Offices and Cars
Thomas F Webster, Deborah J Watkins, Courtney Walker, Alicia J Fraser, Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Heather M Stapleton, Michael D McClean [90044]

16:15 Concentrations of PBDEs in indoor air of daycare facilities and elementary schools
Song-Yee Baek, Mingliang Fang, Yoon-Seok Chang [90059]

16:30 Assessment of Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) in the Indoor Environment: Implications on Environmental Exposure Assessment
Yu-Li Huang, Yu-Ping Wang, Dai-Rong Yang, Shen-Yi Chen, Jenq-Ren Chen [90065]

16:45 Behavior of Additive Brominated Flame Retardants in Textile Products
Natsuko Kajiwara, Hidetaka Takigami [90074]

17:00 Dioxin-like Compounds in Japanese Indoor Dusts: Brominated Dibenzofurans Strongly Contribute to Dioxin-Like Activity Evaluated by In Vitro Bioassay
Go Suzuki, Masayuki Someya, Shin Takahashi, Hidetaka Takigami, Shin-ichi Sakai, Shinsuke Tanabe [90062]

Environment II

17:15 Monitoring of Decabromodiphenylether in the European Environment: Results of the First Five Years (2005-2009)
Jacob de Boer, Heather A Leslie, Philippe Bersuder, Gier W Gabrielsen, Richard F Shore, Lee A Walker, Pim E Leonards [90063]

17:30 Concentrations of Hexabromocyclodocanes and Tetrabromobisphenol-A in Water, Sediment, and Fish from English Lakes
Stuart Harrad, Mohamed A-E Abdallah, Neil L Rose, Simon D Turner, Thomas A Davidson [90031]

17:45 Brominated Flame Retardants in American Eel: a Reason for the Eel's Decline?
Jonathan D Byer, Mehran Alaee, R Stephen Brown, Michel Lebeuf, Steve Trottier, Sean Backus, Susan Blunt, Mike Keir, Margaret Konefal, Grazina Pacepavicius, Peter V Hodson [90070]

19:00 - 21:00  Banquet
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