Flame Retardant Dilema Symposium

You are invited to attend all or part of the day.

• 8:30-9am: Check-In and Networking.
• 9-9:40am: Arlene Blum, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley -- Halogenated Flame Retardants: Do the Benefit Justify the Harm?
• 9:40-10:20am: Ami Zota, Sci.D., M.S., Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF -- Halogenated Flame Retardants: Human Exposure and Epidemiology.
• 10:20-10:40am: Break.
• 10:40-11pm: Peter Brigham, Founding Director, Federation of Burn Foundations -- The Burn Injury Community and Flame Retardant Chemicals.
• 11-12pm: Panel Discussion with speakers, Andrew McGuire, Wendel Brunner, Ana Mascare�as, Sharyle Patton -- How can the California Furniture Flammability Standard TB117 be improved?
• 12-1pm: Lunch.
• 1-1:25pm: Sue Chiang, M.P.H., M.P.P., Center for Environmental Health -- Environmental Health, Flame Retardants, and national standards under EPEAT.
• 1:25-1:45pm: Michael Kirschner, President, Design Chain Associates -- The California Green Chemistry Safer Consumer Product Alternatives Regulation;
• 1:45-3pm: Author Forum -- Joyce Egginton, author of "The Poisoning of Michigan"; Elizabeth Grossman, author of "Chasing Molecules"; Carl Cranor Ph.D., author of "Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants".
• 3-3:30pm: Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up;
• 3:30-4pm: Book Signing.

Room 150

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