during fiscal year 2001. ATSDR now has 152
fact sheets in print and posted on the Internet in
In fiscal year 2001, about
HTML and PDF format.
45 graduate and
Among the toxicological profiles issued in fiscal
year 2001 was a comprehensive update of DDT/
undergraduate students
DDE/DDD. This publication was based on a
were being trained in
thorough review of highly relevant scientific
studies published since the release of the previ-
environmental health and
ous version in 1994. This publication was useful
toxicology research at
lutants (POPs). The document provided the
universities participating
negotiators with a critical and comprehensive
in ATSDR's
review of current science related to DDT health
effects, environmental fate, and potential for
Environmental Health
human exposure. DDT was one of 12 POPs con-
and Toxicology Research
sidered for a worldwide ban. The POPs treaty
ultimately retained DDT as an option for emer-
Program with the
gency use for malaria control.
Minority Health
ATSDR's Substance-Specific
Professions Foundation.
Applied Research Program
ATSDR is working to determine the rela-
tionships between adverse human health out-
sity-based research conducted through an agree-
comes and hazardous substances through its
ment with the Minority Health Professions
Substance-Specific Applied Research Program
Foundation. Additional research needs are being
(SSARP). CERCLA requires that for each haz-
addressed in collaboration with the National
ardous substance listed, ATSDR, in consultation
Toxicology Program and through other agency
with EPA and other public health agencies
programs, including ATSDR's Great Lakes
and programs, assess whether adequate infor-
Human Health Effects Research Program.
mation is available on the health effects of
the substance. Furthermore, the law requires
Significant progress has been made in filling
the priority data needs. During fiscal year 2001,
Toxicology Program, initiate a research effort
ATSDR re-evaluated the current exposure and
designed to determine the health effects of those
toxicity information for the 50 substances cur-
substances for which adequate information is
rently part of the SSARP, identifying 190 dis-
not available (or under development).
tinct priority data needs. To date, 101 priority
data needs are being addressed via the mecha-
A major focus of the SSARP is to fill
nisms that ATSDR has implemented, and 62
the research needs the agency has identified.
of these have been filled. Data obtained from
ATSDR used several mechanisms to fill these
the research program are currently being used
priority data needs in fiscal year 2001. These
to update ATSDR toxicological profiles and to
included industry testing through EPA rule-
develop health-guidance values for hazardous
making, private-sector voluntarism, and univer-
substances evaluated in ATSDR's public health
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