Dioxin Exposure Study

University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study
What's New
	January 27, 2011	January 2011 results
	January 27, 2011	Updated questionnaire responses from 946 subjects who gave blood samples
	December 29, 2009	Presentations to Scientific Advisory Board and Stakeholders Dec. 14, 2009: Fish congener data analyses by Wei Hao and Olivier Jolliet Air concentration analyses of dioxins by Brenda Gillespie and Hiedi Reichert Linear regression models for 2378-TCDD, 23478-PeCDF, and PCB-77 including fish congener, game congener, and air concentration factors by Xiaohui Jiang and David Garabrant Left censored regression model for 2378-TCDF by Hiedi Reichert and Brenda Gillespie Summary findings from UMDES by David Garabrant
	October 19, 2009	EPA Review of University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study, dated Sept. 30, 2009.
	October 18, 2009	UMDES letter to Mr. Steven Chester, Director of MDEQ, requesting that inaccurate statements regarding UMDES be removed from MDEQ website, dated Sept. 25, 2009.
	September 21, 2009	Presentations from the Dioxin 2009 conference in Beijing, China
	September 21, 2009	EPA request for serum TEQ by age and soil above 1000 ppt TEQ
	July 2, 2009	UMDES letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson 6/4/2009
	July 2, 2009	Response to Dow request for additional information on atmospheric deposition modeling and AERMOD.rar
	May 3, 2009	"Review of UMDES Statistical Modeling Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation" by John Kern, PhD and related documents
	March 31, 2009	Stakeholder request for information on atmospheric deposition modeling
	January 19, 2009	Scientific Publication - "An Investigation of Homes with High Concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs, and/or Dioxin-Like PCBs in House Dust"
	December 22, 2008	Scientific Publication - "The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study: Methods for an Environmental Exposure Study of Polychlorinated Dioxins, Furans and Biphenyls"
	December 22, 2008	Scientific Publication - "The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study: Predictors of Human Serum Dioxin Concentrations in Midland and Saginaw, Michigan"
	December 22, 2008	Scientific Publication - "The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study: Population Survey Results and Serum Concentrations for Polychlorinated Dioxins, Furans and Biphenyls"
	December 2, 2008	Scientific Publication - " Residences with anomalous soil concentrations of dioxin-like compounds in two communities in Michigan, USA: A case study"
	October 29, 2008	Scientific Publications - Abstracts from the 2008 ISEE-ISEA Joint Annual Conference in Pasadena, CA
	October 29, 2008	Presentations and posters from the 2008 ISEE-ISEA Joint Annual Conference in Pasadena, CA
	October 21, 2008	Scientific Publication - "Apparent Half-Lives of Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs as a function of Age, Body Fat, Smoking Status, and Breastfeeding"
	September 10, 2008	Presentations and posters from the Dioxin 2008 conference in Birmingham, England
	July 23, 2008	Scientific Publication - "Statistical Comparison of Residential Soil Concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs from Two Communities in Michigan"
	July 16, 2008	Updated blood, house dust, and soil measurements
	May 27, 2008	Updated questionnaire responses
	May 7, 2008	Stakeholder request regarding a comparison of UMDES and Dow/ATS soil data
	April 16, 2008	Scientific Publication - "Geostatistical Modeling of the Spatial Distribution of Soil Dioxins in the Vicinity of an Incinerator. 2. Verification and Calibration Study"
	April 15, 2008	Scientific Publication - "Geostatistical Modeling of the Spatial Distribution of Soil Dioxins in the Vicinity of an Incinerator. 1. Theory and Application to Midland, Michigan"
	April 2, 2008	Stakeholder request for additional soil concentration data
	January 10, 2008	Stakeholder request for data on the consumption of frogs and turtles
	December 18, 2007	Presentations and posters from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) conference in San Antonio, TX
	November 9, 2007	Updated questionnaire responses
	October 22, 2007	Posters from the ISEA conference in Research Triangle Park, NC
	October 8, 2007	Scientific Publication - "Human Exposure to Dioxins from Clay: A Case Report"
	September 21, 2007	Presentations and posters from the Dioxin 2007 conference in Tokyo, Japan
	September 21, 2007	Blood sampling data - TEQ values based on 21 dioxins, furans, and PCBs
	July 20, 2007	Updated version of the Proposal for a Follow-up Study of Blood Outliers
	July 17, 2007	Stakeholder requests for data analyses
	July 6, 2007	Blood, Dust and Soil Sampling Data - TEQ values based on 17 dioxins and furans (no PCBs)
	June 7, 2007	Presentations from the June 5, 2007 community meeting
	May 11, 2007	Community meeting scheduled for June 5, 2007 at the Horizons Conference Center
	May 11, 2007	Press Release - "U-M Dioxin Researchers to Meet with Community Representatives"
	April 19, 2007	March 27, 2007 Certificate of Confidentiality Amendment
	April 2, 2007	Blood, Dust and Soil Sampling Data - TEQ values calculated using the WHO 2005 TEFs
	April 2, 2007	Proposal for a Follow-up Study of Blood Outliers