Bioaccumulation Oversight Group - Meeting
Pollutants that accumulate in the food web (or 'bioaccumulate') are having detrimental impacts on beneficial uses of water bodies throughout California. Monitoring information will provide an essential foundation for control plans and exposure reduction plans to remedy this problem. In addition, effective communication of this information to the public is imperative to enable fish consumers to reduce their exposure to pollutants.
The California Water Quality Monitoring Council (http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/mywaterquality/monitoring_council/)
has established a committee, the Bioaccumulation Oversight Group (BOG), that is charged with coordinating monitoring, assessment, and communication of information relating to bioaccumulation in California.
As a first step in taking on this role, the BOG is holding a meeting on December 17 where a series of presentations will provide an overview of various aspects of the bioaccumulation problem in California water bodies. The presentations will summarize the latest information on statewide surveys of sport fish, accumulation in humans, risks to wildlife, contaminants of emerging concern, the new statewide mercury program, studies of mercury in reservoirs, consumption advisories, and efforts to communicate consumption advice to fish consumers. This meeting will set the stage for subsequent BOG meetings aimed at coordinating work in all of these areas.
The meeting will be held at the Department of Public Health building in Richmond. YOU MUST REGISTER to be able to get into the building. Registration information and logistical details are available at:
http://www.sfei.org/calendar_events/Symposium
If you have questions please contact Jay Davis (jay@sfei.org).