HSC - Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS)

WATCH sub-committee agenda

9th Meeting, Thursday 22nd February 2007 10.45 am - 3.30 pm, Rose Room, Rose Court, London

Item	Description	Notes
	Coffee 10.15 – 10.45 am
1	Administrative Issues
2	How to progress the identified “emerging issue” of reviewing appropriate levels of control and associated terminology for “nuisance dusts”	WATCH/2007/1 Annex 1 Annex 4 Annex 5 Annex 6
3	The Disease Reduction Programme: Cancer Project
	Lunch
4	The risk of ill-health from low-level exposures to asbestos – exploring what can (and can’t) be reliably discerned about the dose-response relationships involved in “low level exposure” - Initial discussion about scope of project and best means of its progression	WATCH/2007/2
5	Towards a modern exposure intelligence strategy	WATCH/2007/3 WATCH/2007/3 - Annex 1 WATCH/2007/3 - Annex 2 WATCH/2007/3 - Annex 3
6	Recycling
7	Minutes of 8th Meeting held on 9&10 November 2006 Matters arising / Secretary’s report	WATCH/Min/2006/3 WATCH/SecReport/2007/1
8	Date of next meeting	19th June 2007, Bootle
9	AOB If Members have items of AOB, please inform the Secretariat before the meeting