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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:02:29 -0400
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From: "Dr. Jay A. Young" <chemsafety**At_Symbol_Here**VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Reproductive Health and Safety in a Biotech
Danielle,
I suggest using Google to obtain the
titles of
three or four of the most authoritative reference books on the topic of
terato-toxicity. Review each of the identified books and select
one or
more of them to obtain the information you want to present in your
seminar.
You will find that, actually, we know
very little
about which chemicals are hazardous with respect to reproductive human
health. When you think about it of course, you see immediately
that it not
easy to obtain the necessary information since we cannot experiment with
pregnant women or potential fathers as our experimental subjects.
We must
resort to using animals and then figure out whether or not the results
of such
evaluations can be applied directly or in modified form to
humans.
Good Luck! You'll need
it.
Jay Young
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
4:41
PM
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Reproductive
Health
and Safety in a Biotech
Hello
All,
I=92m wondering
if anyone has dealt with training scientists (chemists and biologists)
on
potential reproductive hazards in the laboratory.
I
work for a
biotech company, and currently we have 7 pregnant employees (110
employees
total). All of these employees are in the medicinal chemistry
group. It
has been my experience that the pregnant employees are very cautious
and
knowledgeable about the hazards they are working with, however not all
of
their co-workers are.
My
company
would like me to present a training or seminar of some sort that
educates and
informs all laboratory workers of the reproductive hazards they work
with.
Has anyone
else done this before? Any resources or
suggestions?
Thank
you.
Danielle M.
Boren
Laboratory
Safety
Manager
Senomyx,
Inc.
4767 Nexus
Center Dr.
San Diego, Ca 92121
858-646-8357
office
858-404-0752
fax
858-401-2374
mobile
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