Testing of Fibrous Particles: Short-Term Assays and Strategies

Report of an ILSI Risk Science Institute Working Group

David Bernstein Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland

Vince Castranova National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Ken Donaldson University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK

Bice Fubini Interdepartmental Center “G. Scansetti“ for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates, University of Torino, Italy

John Hadley Owens Corning Science and Technology Center, Granville, OH, USA

Tom Hesterberg International Truck and Engine Corp., Warrenville, IL, USA

Agnes Kane Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA

David Lai U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA

Ernest E. McConnell ToxPath, Inc., Raleigh, NC, USA

Hartwig Muhle Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany

Gunter Oberdorster University of Rochester School of Environmental Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA

Stephen Olin ILSI Risk Science Institute, Washington, DC, USA

David B. Warheit DuPont Haskell Laboratory for Health and Environmental Sciences, Newark, DE, USA