Sixth International Symposium on Flame Retardants (BFR2013)

第六届国际阻燃剂研讨会(BFR2013)

• 批准号: 8530000
• 负责人: Candace Bever
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8530000
• 关键词: Address; Area; Awareness; California; Canada; Chemicals; Chemistry; Child; Communities; Country; Development; Environment; Epidemiology; Equipment; Fees; Fertility; Flame Retardants; Funding; Goals; Government Officials; Hazardous Waste Sites; Health; Home environment; Human; Industry; International; Japan; Link; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Netherlands; Oral; Participant; Pollution; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Reporting; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; San Francisco; Science Policy; Scientist; Source; Strategic Planning; Students; Sweden; Thyroid Gland; Time; Toxicology; Travel; United States; Work; career; consumer product; meetings; member; phenyl ether; pollutant; posters; programs; public health relevance; reproductive; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the Sixth International Symposium on Flame Retardants (BFR2013) to be held April 7-10, 2013 in San Francisco, California. This meeting will highlight one major class of contaminants, flame retardants, which are found, and will increasingly be found at hazardous waste sites. The focus of this symposium is to discuss a multitude of aspects regarding flame retardants, including sessions about sources, control and regulation, exposure, toxicology, environment, indoor pollution, and alternatives. Many of these sessions are responsive to the stated themes expressed in the NIEHS 2012-2016 Strategic Plan. The health relatedness of this conference is that the most commonly used flame retardants, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), have become ubiquitous in the environment and in humans in spite of efforts to limit their use in home furnishings and consumer products. Concerns about replacement flame retardants have prompted both scientists and regulators to seek more information on these new and diverse classes of chemicals. Presentations will explore the complexity of these issues and potentially bring awareness to new avenues of research. The broad and long-term goals of the conference are to increase our understanding about current and replacement flame retardant chemicals. The specific aims of this meeting will be to convene speakers from around the world that represent critical areas of flame retardant science and policy with a total of 250 participants fora 2.5 day symposium. The program will commence Sunday evening with a Welcoming Reception to provide the participants with an opportunity to meet before the actual meeting starts. Seven oral presentation sessions will address the latest findings in flame retardant science and policy. Two poster sessions will permit all participants to contribute to these topics. All of the sessions will be held concurrently. The posters will be on display all day with time at breaks for viewing and dedicated sessions for interacting with the authors. The significance of this application is that the BFR Symposia have become the premier forum for members of the international academic community, government officials and private industry to discuss the latest scientific and regulatory developments regarding flame retardant chemicals. Conference funding in the amount of $14,900 is being sought to 1) provide travel and conference registration fee support of participants to attend BFR2013 and 2) support a portion of the equipment rental fees.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案请求对将于2013年4月7日至10日在加州的弗朗西斯科举行的第六届国际阻燃剂研讨会（BFR 2013）提供部分支持。本次会议将重点介绍一种主要的污染物，即阻燃剂，这种污染物在危险废物现场已经发现，并将越来越多地被发现。本次研讨会的重点是讨论有关阻燃剂的多个方面，包括有关来源，控制和监管，暴露，毒理学，环境，室内污染和替代品的会议。这些会议中有许多是针对NIEHS 2012-2016年战略计划中提出的主题。本次会议的健康相关性在于，最常用的阻燃剂多溴联苯醚（PBDEs）在环境和人体中无处不在，尽管人们努力限制其在家居用品和消费品中的使用。对替代阻燃剂的担忧促使科学家和监管机构寻求更多关于这些新的不同类别化学品的信息。演讲将探讨这些问题的复杂性，并可能使人们认识到新的研究途径。会议的广泛和长期目标是增加我们对当前和替代阻燃化学品的理解。本次会议的具体目标是召集来自世界各地的代表阻燃科学和政策关键领域的演讲者，共有250名与会者参加为期2.5天的研讨会。该计划将于周日晚上开始，欢迎招待会为与会者提供一个机会，在实际会议开始之前见面。七场口头报告会将讨论阻燃科学和政策的最新发现。两次海报会议将使所有与会者都能对这些专题作出贡献。所有会话 将同时举行。这些海报将全天展示，休息时可供观看，并专门与作者互动。这一应用的重要性在于，BFR研讨会已成为国际学术界、政府官员和私营企业成员讨论阻燃化学品最新科学和法规发展的首要论坛。目前正在寻求14，900美元的会议资金，用于：1）为参加2013年柏林森林论坛的与会者提供差旅费和会议登记费支助; 2）支助部分设备租赁费。