Testing of fibrous particles: short-term assays and strategies.

WORKING GROUP David Bernstein (Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland) Vince Castranova (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA) Ken Donaldson (University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK) Bice Fubini (Interdepartmental Center “G. Scansetti” for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates, University of Torino, Italy) John Hadley (Owens Corning Science and Technology Center, Granville, OH, USA) Tom Hesterberg (International Truck and Engine Corp., Warrenville, IL, USA) Agnes Kane (Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA) David Lai (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA) Ernest E. McConnell (ToxPath, Inc., Raleigh, NC, USA) Hartwig Muhle (Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Hannover, Germany) Gunter Oberdorster (University of Rochester School of Environmental Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA) Stephen Olin (ILSI Risk Science Institute, Washington, DC, USA) David B. Warheit (DuPont Haskell Laboratory for Health and Environmental Sciences, Newark, DE, USA)