Project Duration: December 2023 – December 2025
Looking for External Reviewers!
The ITRC BioCEC Team requests review and feedback from public health and environmental professionals involved in monitoring and identifying emerging microbial hazards in the environment, or in developing regulatory programs to address them. These professionals include regulatory administrators involved in program/policy development on environmental biological health hazards, as well as human and ecological risk assessors, experts in microbial fate and transport, infectious disease specialists, waste management specialists, water resource specialists, and environmental microbiologists.
What are Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC)?
ITRC defines CEC as “substances or microorganisms, including physical, chemical, biological, or radiological materials, known or anticipated in the environment, that may pose newly identified risks to human health or the environment.”
Why are we doing this?
ITRC’s CEC Identification Framework is a tool to assist regulators and other stakeholders with identifying and prioritizing actions to address CEC but is focused heavily on chemicals. The Framework includes a white paper and several fact sheets focused on CEC identification, monitoring programs, analytical methods, and risk communication. The comprehensive framework will provide a more holistic approach to characterizing and managing CECs and associated risks to human health and the environment.
The Team will expand the scope of ITRC’s Identification Framework to include biological CEC and create additional ITRC web-based guidance documents and training products.
Team Leaders
Meaghan Cibarich
meaghane.cibarich@wisconsin.gov
Vivek Mathrani
Vivek.Mathrani@dtsc.ca.gov
Program Advisor
Maggie Mandell
mmandell@environmentalworks.com