Collaborative on Food with Arsenic and Associated Risk and Regulation

 描述(由申请者提供)：由达特茅斯学院有毒金属超级基金研究计划和儿童环境健康和疾病预防研究中心赞助的含砷食品及其相关风险和监管合作(C-FARR)正在努力解决围绕食品中砷的重要问题。C-Farr建议举办一次邀请性研讨会，其核心目标如下：1.建立一个研究食物中砷的去向和由此对人类的影响的科学家网络；2.促进利益相关者和科学家之间就与美国和全球食品中砷的公共卫生政策和监管有关的重要问题进行沟通；3.为从事砷研究的科学家，包括生物学家、环境化学家、农业和健康科学家、风险科学家、流行病学家、营养学家和儿科医生提供一个论坛，将他们的结果与其他研究人员交流，并促进跨学科交流。 为促进相关科学的发展，将提供以下方面的信息：4.确定有关食品中砷的关键问题和知识差距，以及通过食用大米和其他含砷食品对人类的暴露，并促进对现有数据的分析，以解决这些问题；5.制作一系列手稿和适用的数据集，解决关键问题和知识差距，这将成为出版同行评议的期刊特刊和相关翻译材料的基础，以便为食品中砷I规范的政策提供信息。研讨会旨在召集作者(研究土壤和海水中的砷、植物吸收、食物暴露及其对人类健康的影响的研究人员)、政策制定者和利益攸关方：1)听取利益攸关方和政策制定者关于砷相关政策问题的最新发展和需求；2)合作确定砷科学中的差距和应在综合论文中讨论的相关政策问题；3)向小组介绍论文大纲并继续对话，以形成论文和问题；4)为论文作者提供分组工作的机会，就论文大纲和内容开展工作；5)讨论利益攸关方对每篇论文的看法并招募更多作者；6)讨论翻译产品、宣传范围和目标受众。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Collaborative on Food with Arsenic and associated Risk and Regulation (C-FARR), sponsored by the Dartmouth College Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program and the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center, is working to address important issues surrounding arsenic in food. C-FARR proposes to hold an invitational workshop with the following core aims: 1. to develop a network of scientists who study the fate of arsenic in food and the resulting exposure to humans; 2. to facilitate communication between stakeholders and scientists about the important questions relevant to public health policy and regulation of arsenic in food in the U.S. and globally; 3. to provide a forum for scientists working on arsenic including biologists, environmental chemists, agricultural and health scientists, risk scientists, epidemiologists, nutritionists and pediatricias to communicate their results to other investigators and facilitate an interdisciplinary exchange of information that will accelerate relevant science; 4. to identify key questions and knowledge gaps about arsenic in food and exposure to humans via consumption of rice and other foods containing arsenic, and to facilitate the analysis of existing data to address those questions; and, 5. to produce a series of manuscripts and applicable data sets addressing key questions and knowledge gaps, which will form the foundation for publication of a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal and related translation materials to inform policy for the regulation of arsenic i food. The workshop will be designed to convene authors (researchers studying arsenic in soils and seawater, plant uptake, food exposures, and their impacts on human health), policymakers and stakeholders in a collaborative setting to: 1) hear from stakeholders and policymakers about the latest developments and needs pertaining to arsenic related policy issues; 2) work together to identify gaps in arsenic science and related policy questions that should be addressed in synthesis papers; 3) present paper outlines to the group and continue dialogue for shaping papers and questions; 4) provide opportunities for paper authors to break out in groups to work on paper outlines and content; 5) discuss stakeholder perspectives for each paper and recruit additional authors; and 6) discuss translation products, outreach and target audiences.