Agendas for Meetings of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM)
AGENDA - 18th May 2006
The next meeting of the Committee will be held at 10.30am on Thursday 18 May 2006 in Room 136/7B Skipton House, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6LH
1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the meeting on 9 February 2006 - MUT/MIN/06/1
3. Matters arising (not covered by later agenda items)
4. Discussion with Bristol Implant Research Centre (Metal on Metal Hip replacements)
(In confidence) - MUT/06/7
5. Benzimidazoles: Discussion of a common mechanism group - MUT/06/8
(Annex 1 in confidence)
6. Terephthalic acid: Update on mutagenicity data - MUT/06/9
(Annexes A - E in confidence)
7. Comparative risk assessment: Initial discussions - MUT/06/10
8. Discussion of risk factors for background variance of cytogenticity in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes - MUT/06/11
9. Any other business
10. Papers for information:
10.1 Do dose response threshold exist for genotoxic alkylating agents? Jenkins GJS et al Mutageneisis, 20, 389-398, 2005 - MUT/06/12
10.2 Pidgeon, NF, et al (2005). Using surveys in public participation processes for risk decision-making: the case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public debate. Risk Anal, (25)2:467-79 - MUT/06/13
11. Date of next meeting - Thursday, 12 October 2006