What does CIIT stand for?

Although the stated public positions of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Centers for Health Research (CIIT) describe a desire to broaden the understanding of potential health risks of chemical products, the regulatory context and incentive structures are leading to a focus on revising risk assessments of existing products that the industry believes overestimate true risks (e.

Foster, a reproductive toxicologist at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT) in Research Triangle Park.

In a series of separate studies over the past several years, researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology have fed high doses of phthalates - primarily di (n-butyl) phthalate, or DBP - to female rats and found that the chemical produces permanent defects in the reproductive systems and organs of the rats' male offspring.

Foster and his coworkers at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park, N.

Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT) scientists recently reported evidence that suggests that human exposure to 1,3-butadiene, one of the 189 hazardous air pollutants identified in the Clean Air Amendments, may pose less of a cancer risk than originally believed.

Prior to joining Los Alamos National Laboratories, Farris was a senior scientist at Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.

The Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park will conduct much of the research for the ACC, although university research will also be included.

The plan is extremely comprehensive--if not to the point of overkill," says Paul Foster, a senior scientist at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Research Triangle Park, N.