I'm very confused by the missing attachment and pictures from Lorraine's mailing... The group settings allow for attachments... I wonder if this has something to do with whether people are receiving posts in digest form vs. individual emails. It came through when it showed back up in my inbox as an individual email. I checked in the archives of the group, but neither the pictures nor the attachment were stored in there either...

I did find an online link to the document that was attached, but could not find the slides John Rusmisel sent anywhere online. I found the attachment, though it looks slightly different, online at the following URL: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8667/8667.pdf

This is entitled "A Human-Health Risk Assessment for West Nile Virus and Insecticides Used in Mosquito Management". The only thing that seems to be missing from the online version is the list of abbreviations, and the outline of contents, both of which I'm pasting below. The tables in the online version appear in the text, not as an addendum as it was in the PDF sent by John Rusmisel:

List of Abbreviations:
AB Dermal absorption rate
AHS Adjusted hand surface area
BW Body weight
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CF Conversion factor
CSFII Continuing Surveys for Food Intake by Individuals
D Duration of exposure
DEEM Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model
DR Dislodgeable residue
EEC Estimated Exposure Concentration
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
FA Frequency of activity
FCID Food Commodity Intake Database
HAS Adult hand surface area
ISCST Industrial Source Complex Short Term model
LOAEL Lowest-observed-adverse-effect-level
LOEL Lowest-observed-effect-level
NOAEL No-observed-adverse-effect level
NOEL No-observed-effect-level
NRC National Research Council
NYCDOH New York City Department of Health
PE Potential Exposure
PHED Pesticide Handler Exposure Database
RfD Reference Dose
RQ Risk Quotient
RR Respiratory rate
SA Surface area
SE Number of spray events
SEF Saliva Extraction factor
SETAC Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
SI Soil ingestion
SW Soil weight
TDE Total dermal exposure
THD Total hand dermal exposure
UF Uncertainty Factor
ULV Ultra-low-volume
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
WN West Nile
WNV West Nile Virus


Outline of manuscript section headers
Abstract
Introduction
Material and Methods
Problem formulation
Hazard identification
Toxicity endpoints
Environmental concentrations and fate of insecticides
Acute exposure
Acute inhalation exposure
Acute dermal exposure from spray deposition
Acute hand-to-mouth exposure from spray deposition on hands
Acute ingestion of garden produce
Subchronic exposure
Subchronic inhalation, dermal, and hand-to-mouth exposures
Subchronic hand-to-mouth exposure from deposition on surfaces
Subchronic ingestion of garden produce
Subchronic dermal contact with soil and other surfaces
Subchronic soil ingestion
Risk characterization
Results
West Nile virus risks
Acute risks from insecticides
Subchronic risks from insecticides
Discussion
Conservatism
Uncertainties
Comparing risks
References
Tables


lorraine james <searchless1@...> wrote:

hm, couldn't find attachment, images didn't show up. I feel they were useful in understanding more fully what john was communicating.  Those who are interested, can email me and i can send them the file with the images and pdf file. My daughter's here for her last 3 days of visiting b4 going back to austr. ~ today being the last.  I'm leaving for the weekend tomorrow morn, so i'll only be able to send them out by tonite, then next week when i get back. 

Keep those cards and letters comin' in!  I hope this is useful for everyone.  At least we can start the conversation.  We're moving a lot of info to john at this time. He's sending some to us as well, so let's keep making use of this opportunity to make a difference for us all.  Maybe we can sit down with them after doing this preliminary dousing in information, understanding each other's point of view, and make some headway in changing things for our health.

Already we've come to understand that some of what we thought they were doing they're actually not doing.  Anyway, keep it up.  We'll 'talk' next week. 

Peace,
lorraine

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