COMMITTEE ON THE MEDICAL EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTANTS

AGENDA - 29th FEBRUARY 2008
1030 - 1600

Department of Health: Room 102A, Skipton House.
80 London Road, London SE1 6LH

1. Opening remarks and apologies for absence

2. Minutes of the last meeting held on 22nd June 2007 (COMEAP/2007/MIN2)

3. Matters arising from the Minutes of the last meeting 22nd June 2007

4. Updates (verbal):

a. QUARK II draft Mortality Report
b. QUARK II Morbidity working group
c. Draft Asthma Report
d. Statement from the subgroup on Air Pollution and Children's Health and Development

5. Report of the review of COMEAP (Dr Roy Hamlet) (COMEAP/2008/01)

6. Development of Membership of COMEAP (COMEAP/2008/02)

7. Use of Substitute Fuels in Cement Kilns (COMEAP/2008/03)

a. COMEAP's Statement on the Use of Substitute Fuels in Cement Kilns (2005)
(paper for reference)

8. Buncefield Fire - Modelling of Predicted Concentrations and Health Impacts Under Less Favourable Weather Conditions (COMEAP/2008/04)

9. Presentation: Particle Numbers Project (Dr Richard Atkinson)

10. Miller et al. (2007) paper - possible reasons for the size of the coefficient (COMEAP/2008/05)

11. Papers for information:

a. Code of Practice for Scientific Committees
b. Article from New Scientist magazine

12. AOB

13. Date of the next meeting - 20th June 2008

Secretariat
February 2008

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