Agendas for Meetings of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM)

AGENDA - 12th October 2006

The next meeting of the Committee will be held at 10.30am on Thursday 12 October 2006 in 136/7B, Department of Health, Skipton House, 80 London Road, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6LH

1. Apologies for absence

2. Minutes of the meeting on 18 May 2006 - MUT/MIN/06/2

3. Matters Arising (not covered by later agenda items):

3.1 Secretariat letter dated 22 May to HSE regarding RIP 3.3 Phase 2 Endpoint Working Group (EWG): Mutagenicity - Oral report

3.2 Benzimidazoles - Conclusions - MUT/06/14

3.3 Comparative risk assessment update of COC discussion - MUT/06/16

4. Partial Review of Ethaboxam. [CLOSED SESSION] - MUT/06/18

5. Role of methylation status: Transgenerational effects of methylation - MUT/06/15

6. Do dose response thresholds exist for genotoxic alkylating agents? GJS Jenkins et al Mutagenesis, 20, (6), 389-398, 2005. Evidence for practical thresholds for clastogenic agents - MUT/06/17

7. Horizon scanning 2006 - MUT/06/19

8. Risk factors affecting the formation of chromosomal aberration and micronuclei in peripheral blood lymphocytes. Draft working paper and additional data - MUT/06/22

9. Draft working paper on use of in-vivo rat liver UDS assay compared to rat liver COMET assay data - MUT/06/21

10. Papers for Information:

10.1 Revised procedure for holding committee meetings in open session - MUT/06/20

10.2 In-vivo MN in uncultured T-lymphocytes of male railroad transit workers and referents
(Env Mol Mut, 47, 345-351, 2006) - MUT/06/23

11. Any other Business

12. Date of next meeting: To be announced