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    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
     
     
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