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5041.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
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| Chemical contaminants in freshwater fish present potential health risks for subsistence fishers and recreational anglers. Many questions remain, however, about the sources and associated human health risks of those contaminants, their policy implications, and how to communicate risk information to culturally diverse fish-consuming populations. The first presentation in this session reports on the development and evaluation of a fish consumption advisory program, designed to be culturally sensitive for a Native American population. The following four presentations all originate from the comprehensive study in one geographic region, the Pittsburgh Fish Consumption Study. One presentation describes community based participatory research techniques used to understand patterns of fish consumption by semi-subsistence fishers and recreational anglers, and the discovery of unexpected results about the extent of pollution sources and under-reported gastrointestinal illnesses. The findings of fish tissue analyses for metal and xenoestrogen content are reported in the following presentations, with consideration of their broader implications, particularly source identification and health risks. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe factors to consider in developing a culturally sensitive fish consumption advisory program. 2. Discuss ways to incorporate community participation into environmental health research, and describe potential benefits of community participation. 3. Describe how widely fish contamination can vary within a geographic location. 4. Discuss the need to address fish type and catch location in regulatory actions and fish advisories. 5. Explain potential uses of fish sampling to monitor water quality. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH | |||
| 8:30 AM | Reducing risks to the Anishinaabe from methylmercury: A GIS-based fish consumption advisory program for walleye Adam D. DeWeese, MS, Neil Kmiecik, MS, Jeffery A. Foran, PhD | |||
| 8:50 AM |  | Results of semi-subsistence and recreational angler focus groups: Reports of combined sewer overflows, chemical releases and associated water-related illnesses in the Three Rivers area of Pittsburgh Charles Christen, MEd, LPC, Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Paul Caruso, Myron Arnowitt, BA, Sean Brady, BS, MA, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Evelyn O. Talbott, PhD | ||
| 9:05 AM | | Mercury, Arsenic and Selenium in Channel Catfish from the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh PA: Implications for metallotoxin source identification and fish consumption by local anglers Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Nancy Sussman, PhD, Sean Brady, BS, MA, Paul Caruso, Tiffany Green, BS, Myron Arnowitt, BA, Jim Peterson, PhD, Charles Christen, MEd, LPC, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Patricia Eagon, PhD, Kelly McMahon, MD, Ravi K. Sharma, PhD | ||
| 9:20 AM | | Use of a human breast cancer cell proliferation assay as an exposure assessment tool for total bioaccumulated xenoestrogens in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) caught in various locations on the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh PA: Implications for consumption of river-caught fish Frank Houghton, PhD, Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Christopher Price, Mary Elm, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Patricia Eagon, PhD | ||
| 9:35 AM | | Mercury, Arsenic and Selenium in White Bass fillet caught in the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers near Pittsburgh PA; Comparisons with store-bought fish from Canadian Lake Erie Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Nancy Sussman, PhD, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Sean Brady, BS, MA, Karen Gainey, Jeanne Zborowski, PhD, MS | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Environment | |||
| Endorsed by: | American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus; Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA