Collaborative on Food with Arsenic and Associated Risk and Regulation

 描述（由申请人提供）：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相关风险和监管合作项目（C-FARR）正在努力解决食品中砷的重要问题。C-FARR建议举办一个邀请研讨会，其核心目标如下：1.建立一个科学家网络，研究食物中砷的命运及其对人类的影响; 2.促进利益相关者和科学家之间就美国和全球公共卫生政策和食品中砷监管相关的重要问题进行沟通; 3.为从事砷研究的科学家提供一个论坛，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，以便将他们的研究结果与其他研究人员交流，并促进跨学科的交流， 信息，将加速相关的科学; 4。确定关于食物中的砷以及人类通过食用大米和其他含砷食物接触砷的关键问题和知识差距，并促进分析现有数据以解决这些问题;以及5.编制一系列手稿和适用数据集，解决关键问题和知识差距，这将为出版同行评审期刊特刊和相关翻译材料奠定基础，为砷i食品监管政策提供信息。研讨会将召集作者（研究土壤和海水中砷含量、植物吸收、食物暴露及其对人类健康影响的研究人员）、政策制定者和利益攸关方在合作环境中：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）共同努力，找出砷科学的差距和相关的政策问题，应在综合文件中解决; 3）向小组提交文件大纲，并继续对话，形成文件和问题; 4）为论文作者提供分组讨论论文大纲和内容的机会; 5）讨论每份论文的利益相关者观点，并招募更多的作者; 6）讨论翻译产品、外联和目标受众。

 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.