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736 ORIGINAL ARTICLE A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers M M Finkelstein, D K Verma Occup Environ Med 2004;61:736-742. doi: 10.1136/oem.2003.011916 See end of article for authors' affiliations Correspondence to: Dr M Finkelstein, Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5; murray.finkelstein@ utoronto.ca Accepted 25 February 2004 Aims: To study mortality in a cohort of members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada and to compare results with two previous proportional mortality studies.

MICHIGAN DIOXIN EXPOSURE STUDY CHANGE IN BACKGROUND SERUM LEVELS WITH THE NEW 2005 TEFS Hedgeman E1, Hong B1, Chen Q2, Knutson K1, Lee S-Y2, Olson K3, Lohr-Ward B3, LaDronka K3, Maier M4, Luksemburg W 4, Lepkowski J3, Gillespie B2, Franzblau A1, Garabrant D1 1Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 USA; 2Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 USA; 3Institue for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 USA; 4Vista Analytical Laboratories, El Dorado Hills, California 95762 USA Abstract In June of 2005 the World Health Organization met to reevaluate the toxic equivalency factors for the 29 dioxin-like compounds; TEFs for fourteen of the congeners were changed causing an expected 10 25% decrease in calculated TEQ for the general population.

MICHIGAN DIOXIN EXPOSURE STUDY APPARENT HALF-LIVES OF DIOXINS, FURANS, AND PCBS IN ADULTS AND CHILDREN Milbrath M O1, Wenger Y1, Gillespie B2, Jolliet O1 1Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 109 S Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; 2Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 109 S Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Abstract It is necessary to know the half-life of each congener of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurnans (PCDFs), and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the body to estimate the contribution of past exposures on current serum concentrations.

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