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Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 106, Supplement 6, November 1998
Between 11 and 13 August 1997, a conference on Current Issues of Chemical Mixtures was held and hosted at Fort Collins, Colorado, by the Colorado State University (CSU) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Basic Research Program. Other sponsors of the conference included the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (both the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and the Region VIII Office), the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, and the Electric Power Research Institute. The more than 160 participants from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United States are scientists, engineers, policymakers, and individuals with a profound interest in the issues related to hazardous waste disposal and contamination. The conference consisted of six sessions: Overview of human health and regulatory problems related to chemical mixture exposures; Biomedical advances on chemical mixtures I; Biomedical advances on chemical mixtures II; Methodological advances on the toxicology of chemical mixtures; Ecological and engineering advances on chemical mixture research; and Risk assessment issues related to hazardous waste chemical mixtures. In all, 28 podium lectures, 1 panel discussion, and 39 poster presentations were given at the 3-day conference. Representative manuscripts were submitted, peer reviewed, and organized into this monograph on chemical mixtures from hazardous waste disposal sites.
Approximately 2 weeks before the conference, Fort Collins had a devastating flood that was estimated to occur only once every thousand years. Many buildings on the CSU campus were severely damaged, including the conference site. It was due to the valiant effort of many CSU colleagues that the conference was able to be held on time at a different location, the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, in the city. Their devotion and contributions are specially and gratefully acknowledged here.
