International Meeting
on Health
and Environment:
Challenges for the Future
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, December 9 - 11, 2009
PROGRAMME
International Meeting
on Health
and Environment:
Challenges for the Future
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, December 9 - 11, 2009
PROGRAMME
The Meeting is organized by the Department of the Environment and Primary Prevention of the Italian National Institute for Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS)
with the scientific patronage of the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and
Sea, Italian Ministry for Health, and World Health Organization. The Meeting has been
financially supported by the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea.
Meeting Chairperson
Alessandro di Domenico (ISS)
International Steering Committee
Roger Aertgeerts (WHO)
Peter Calow (University of Sheffield, UK)
Donato Di Monte (Parkinson's Institute, CA, USA)
Heidelore Fielder (UNEP)
Corrado L. Galli (University of Milan, I)
Dorota Jarosinska (EEA)
Larry Needham (CDC, CA, USA)
Miquel Porta (IMIM, ES)
ISS Scientific and Organizing Committee
Alessandro Alimonti
Simonetta Gemma
Luca Lucentini
Laura Mancini
Francesco Petrucci
Emanuela Testai
Technical and Organizing Secretariat
Silvana Caciolli
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
08.30 Participant registration
09.30 Opening ceremony and welcome addresses by the
Meeting Chair
Italian National Institute for Health
Italian Ministry for Health
Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea
Plenary session 1A (Aula Pocchiari)
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGES - THE CRUCIAL ROLE
OF WATER
Chairs: Roger Aertgeerts, Giuseppe Cavarretta
10.00 Changes in climate, changes in water, changes in health
Jos Timmerman
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Climate and water - Addressing environmental determinants of health in
adaptation: the lesson learned
Luciana Sinisi
11.15 Dynamic and toxicity of P. rubescens (a toxic cyanobacteria) in different
lakes: the need for an integrated approach for monitoring program design
Susanna Vichi, Mara Stefanelli, Simona Scardala, Maura Manganelli,
Francesca Palazzo, Simonetta Gemma, Fabrizio Scialanca,
Paolo Andreani, Enzo Funari, Emanuela Testai
11.30 Discussion
Plenary session 1B (Aula Pocchiari)
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGES - THE CRUCIAL ROLE
OF WATER
Chairs: Jan Cortvriend, Giuliana Gasparrini
12.00 Drinking water and climate changes
Jan Cortvriend
12.30 Unprecedented cyanobacterial bloom and microcystin production in a drinking
water reservoir in the South of Italy: a model for emergency response and risk
management
Luca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani, Sara Bogialli, Emanuele Ferretti,
Enrico Veschetti, Rosa Giovanna, Concetta Ladalardo, Matteo Cannarozzi
De Grazia, Nicola Ungaro, Rosaria Petruzzelli, Gianni Tartari,
Licia Guzzella, Marina Mingazzini, Diego Copetti
12.45 An Italian approach for local management actions after flooding events
Stefania Marcheggiani, Mario Carere, Riccardo Grifoni,
Camilla Puccinelli, Enzo Funari, Laura Mancini
13.00 From past to better public health programme planning for possible future
global threats: case studies applied to infection control
Roberte Manigat, Jean Claude André, Michel Duprat
13.15 Discussion
13.30 Lunch and poster viewing
Poster session 1: Topic 1 - 4 (Aula Marotta)
Plenary session 2 (Aula Pocchiari)
PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Chairs: Miquel Porta, Marcello Spanò
15.00 Persistent organic pollutants: exposed individuals and exposed populations
Miquel Porta
15.30 Endometriosis and persistent organic pollutants: results of a case-control
study on Italian women of reproductive age
Maria Grazia Porpora, Emanuela Medda, Annalisa Abballe, Simone Bolli,
Isabella De Angelis, Alessandro di Domenico, Annamaria Ferro,
Anna Maria Ingelido, Antonella Maggi, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici,
Elena De Felip
15.45 Exposure to PCBs and genetic polymorphisms of drug metabolizing enzyme
in the susceptibility to endometriosis: a gene-environment interaction
Susanna Vichi, Simonetta Gemma, Anna Maria Ingelido,
Annalisa Abballe, Maria Grazia Porpora, Annamaria Ferro,
Emanuela Medda, Lorenza Nisticò, Elena De Felip, Emanuela Testai
16.00 Discussion
16.30 Coffee break
Plenary session 3 (Aula Pocchiari)
URBAN AIR QUALITY OUTDOOR VS INDOOR
Chairs: Dorota Jarosinska, Nicola Pirrone
17.00 Air quality and human health - The urban environment perspective
Dorota Jarosinska
17.30 Poverty and the challenge of urban environmental health in Nigeria
Geoffrey Nkawa
17.45 Evaluation of the temporal variation of air quality in Rome, Italy,
from 1999 to 2008
Giorgio Cattani, Alessandro Di Menno di Bucchianico, Daniela Dina,
Marco Inglessis, Carmelo Notaro, Gaetano Settimo, Giuseppe Viviano,
Achille Marconi
18.00 Current status of ambient air quality in Lahore (2nd biggest city of Pakistan)
Ghulam Hussain Qasim
18.15 Biomonitoring study of children exposed to different levels of pollution in the
Hainaut Province
Marie-Christine Dewolf, Etienne Noël, Philippe Fierro, Wendy Fris,
Pol Bouviez, Andrée Marijns, Charles Pestelecq, Wei-Hong Zhang
18.30 Discussion
19.00 End of session
19.00 Welcome cocktail
Parallel activity session (Aula Bovet)
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT NETWORK HENVINET
Chairs: Alena Bartonova, Gemma Calamandrei
14.30 Towards further integration of research results into decision making: health
and environment network
Alena Bartonova, Hans Keune, Martin Krayer von Kraus, Hai-Ying Liu,
Aileen Yang, the HENVINET Team
14.50 Knowledge evaluation methodology in environmental health - The HENVINET
approach
Martin Krayer von Kraus, Hans Keune, Alena Bartonova, Hai-Ying Liu,
Aileen Yang, the HENVINET Team
15.10 Chlorpyrifos and the evidence for effects on neuro-development in
childhood: how well do the experts agree?
Brooke Magnanti, Sara Correia Carreira, Margaret Saunders,
Janna Koppe, Gemma Calamandrei, Hans Keune, Alena Bartonova,
Martin Krayer von Kraus
15.30 HENVINET networking portal: web community joining health and environment
professionals
Scott Randal, Peter van den Hazel, Michael Kobernus, Martin Krayer von Kraus,
Aileen Yang, Alena Bartonova, the HENVINET team
15.50 Discussion
16.30 End of session
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Plenary session 4 (Aula Pocchiari)
THE APPRAISAL OF HEALTH RISK FROM EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND
BIOMONITORING DATA
Chairs: Larry Needham, Irene Figà-Talamanca
09.00 Ongoing human biomonitoring activities to assess the extent of exposure of
the Italian general population to those POPs considered by the Stockholm
Convention and the UNECE Protocol: a joint effort of the Italian Ministry of the
Environment and the ISS
Giuliana Gasparrini, Elena De Felip
09.15 Predicted aerobic capacity of asthmatic children, derived from clinical studies
Lene Lochte
09.30 Lead levels in umbilical cord blood in five Belgium maternity units predictive
value of a risk questionnaire and intervention
Wei-Hong Zhang, Marie Christine Dewolf, Samia Hammadi, Wendy Fris,
Etienne Noël, Sophie Alexander
09.45 Molecular and genetic factors influence on DNA repair efficiency and health
hazard
Antonina Cebulska-Wasilewska
10.00 Environment and Public Health (EPH) programme. Development at the Society
for Research and Prevention on Environment and Health (European S.R.E.H.)
Guy A. Magnus
10.15 Use of ERICA (Ecotoxicological Risk Index for a Complete Assessment) in
risk communication and perception, a unique number for several parameters
Elena Boriani, Diego Baderna, Alessandro Mariani, Annamaria Segalini,
Emilio Benfenati
10.30 Discussion
11.00 Coffee break
Plenary session 5 (Aula Pocchiari)
EMERGING PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS - NEED FOR A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN HEALTH IMPLICATIONS
Chairs: Peter Calow, Antonio Cassone
11.30 Climate change and emerging infectious disease threats to Europe
Paul Hunter
12.00 Detection of genogroup IV Norovirus in environmental samples by
reverse-transcriptase PCR/nested PCR
Giuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Manoochehr Pourshaban,
Marta Fratini, Michele Muscillo
12.15 Surveillance of human adenoviruses in Italian sewage treatment plants by
nested PCR analysis in the fiber and in the hexon coding regions
Marcello Iaconelli, Giuseppina La Rosa, Manoochehr Pourshaban,
Valentina Spuri, Michele Muscillo
12.30 Emerging diseases in rural areas of the European Region: the example of
campylobacteriosis
Stefania Marcheggiani, Monica Francesca Blasi, Laura Mancini,
Enzo Funari
12.45 Discussion
13.15 Lunch and poster viewing
Poster session 2: topic 5 - 8 (Aula Marotta)
Plenary session 6 (Aula Pocchiari)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL HYPOTHESIS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Chairs: Donato Di Monte, Enrico Alleva
14.30 Neurotoxicants, alpha-synuclein, and Parkinson’s disease: experimental
evidence in support of a role of environmental agents in neurodegenerative
processes
Donato Di Monte
15.00 Cyanobacteria and their toxins as possible risk factors in the etiopathogenesis
of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Emanuela Testai, Enzo Funari, Nicola Vanacore, Giuseppe Stipa
15.15 The transgenic mouse over-expressing the hMTH1 hydrolase: a novel mouse
model of extended life span and protection against neurodegeneration
Maria Teresa Russo, Ilenia Ventura, Gabriele De Luca, Paolo Degan,
Alberto Martire, Patrizia Popoli, Margherita Bignami
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Coffee break
ROUND TABLE (Aula Pocchiari)
Chair: Christine Majewki (EFSA)
16.30 Goods globalization - Which threats for human health?
Members of the International Steering Committee, EFSA, UNEP,
Federchimica, ISS
18.00 End of session
20.00 Social dinner
Friday, December 11, 2009
Plenary session 7 (Aula Pocchiari)
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Chairs: Heidelore Fiedler, Giovanni Andreottola
09.00 Hazardous chemicals emissions from open burning processes in
a global context
Heidelore Fiedler
09.30 Treatment of leachate streams by a membrane bioreactor
Teresa Castelo-Grande, Paulo A. Augusto, Paulo Monteiro,
Angel M. Estevez, Domingos Barbosa
09.45 Understanding of health effects on decision making concerning waste
management: from evidence to action. General comments and proposal
Paolo Lauriola
10.00 Management of health-care waste in Izmir
Ahmet Soysal, Hatice Şimşek, Dilek Soysal, Funda Alyu
10.15 Discussion
10.45 Coffee break
Plenary session 8 (Aula Pocchiari)
THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES ON ENVIRONMENT AND
HEALTH
Chairs: Angelo Moretto, Raffaele Mattioli
11.15 Risk assessment of multiple pesticide residues
Angelo Moretto
11.45 Bioherbicide formulation (a review)
Mohammad Taghi Alebrahim, Reza Ghorbani, Roghieh Majd
12.00 Relationship between POP background levels in agricultural environments
and target levels in foods: a challenge for risk reduction of priority pollutants
Annalaura Iamiceli, Roberto Miniero, Gianfranco Brambilla,
Elena De Felip
12.15 ASTERisk, a tool to guide enforcement and monitoring of pesticides use
Francesco Galimberti, Teresa Mammone, Angelo Moretto
12.30 The assessment of operator, bystander, and worker exposure to pesticides:
approaches, tools, and needs
Renato Cabella
12.45 Discussion
13.15 Lunch
ROUND TABLE (Aula Pocchiari)
Chair: Letizia Gabaglio (Scientific journalist)
14.30 Risk perception and risk communication
Members of the EFSA, Federchimica, ISS
16.00 Award presentation
16.30 Closing of the Symposium
INVITED LECTURERS AND CHAIRPERSONS
Roger Aertgeerts - Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Environment and
Health, World Health Organization, WHO, Rome, Italy
Enrico Alleva - Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Italian National Institute
for Health, ISS, Rome, Italy
Giovanni Andreottola - University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Alena Bartonova - Centre for Ecology and Economics, Norwegian Institute for Air
Research, NILU, Kjeller, Norway
Gemma Calamandrei - Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Italian National
Institute for Health, ISS, Rome, Italy
Peter Calow - Danish Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark;
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Antonio Cassone - Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-Mediated
Diseases, Italian National Institute for Health, ISS, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Cavarretta - Earth and Environment Department, National Research
Council, CNR, Rome, Italy
Jan Cortvriend - European Commission, DG Environment, Water Unit, Brussels,
Belgium
Donato Di Monte - The Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Heidelore Fiedler - United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Chemicals Branch,
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Irene Figà-Talamanca - Department of Hygiene and Industrial Health, Sapienza
University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Letizia Gabaglio - Galileo Editorial Services, Rome
Giuliana Gasparrini - Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory and Sea, Rome,
Italy
Paul Hunter - School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, United Kingdom
Dorota Jarosinska - Environment and Health Integrated Environmental Assessments,
European Environment Agency, EEA, Copenhagen, Denmark
Raffaele Mattioli - Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organizations of the
United Nations, FAO, Rome, Italy
Christine Majewki - Department of Strategy, European Food Safety Authority, EFSA,
Parma, Italy
Angelo Moretto - Department of Occupational Environmental Health, Faculty of
Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Larry Needham - Toxicology Branch, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Nicola Pirrone - Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, National Research Council, CNR,
Rende, Cosenza, Italy
Miquel Porta - Institute of Medical Research and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
IMIM & UAB, Barcelona, Spain
Luciana Sinisi Environmental Determinants of Health, Superior Institute for
Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Rome, Italy
Marcello Spanò - Section of Toxicology and Biomedical Sciences, Italian National
Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA
Casaccia, Rome, Italy
Jan G. Timmerman - Rijkswaterstaat, RWS, Centre for Water Management, Lelystad,
The Netherlands
POSTER SESSION 1
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
9.30 – 18.30
Aula Marotta
TOPIC 1
Health implications of climate changes The crucial role of water
1-1
RECREATIONAL FISHING PONDS: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT IN
MEDITERRANEAN ECOREGION
Francesca Anna Aulicino, Laura Mancini, Alfredo Ioppolo, Maria Grazia Cappella,
Fabrizio Volpi, Stefania Marcheggiani, Camilla Puccinelli, Lorenzo Tancioni
1-2
NON-TUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA AND MICROBIAL POPULATIONS IN
DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
Rossella Briancesco, Maurizio Semproni, Simonetta Della Libera, Massimo Sdanganelli,
Lucia Bonadonna
1-3
NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE CHEMICAL MONITORING OF EUROPEAN WATER
BODIES IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES
Stefano Polesello, Mario Carere, Philippe Quevauviller
1-4
BRAIN 1.2 AND DORSAL ROOT GANGLION 1.8 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM
CHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNITS EXPRESSED IN HEK293 CELLS TO COMPARE
CIGUATOXINS AND BREVETOXINS POTENCY
Valeria Dell’Ovo, Marie-Yasmine Bottein, Aurelia Tubaro, John S. Ramsdell
1-5
WORLDWIDE OCCURRENCE OF MYCOTOXINS IN FRUITS AND DERIVED
PRODUCTS. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS
María L. Fernández-Cruz, Marcia L. Mansilla, José L. Tadeo
1-6
A CASE STUDY OF SANITARY SURVEY ON COMMUNITY DRINKING WATER
SUPPLIES AFTER A SEVERE (POST-TSUNAMI) FLOODING EVENT
Emanuele Ferretti, Luca Lucentini, Lucia Bonadonna, Simonetta Della Libera, Maurizio
Semproni, Massimo Ottaviani
1-7
CHALLENGES TO UNDERSTAND CHEMICAL IMPACTS ALONG AN URBAN-TORURAL GRADIENT
Roberto Miniero, Annalaura Iamiceli, Gianfranco Brambilla, Elena De Felip, John M.
Marzluff
1-8
FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE IS FIGHTING FOR “OUR“ LIVES
Ana Raquel Nunes
1-9
METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF THE QUALITY OF WATER INTENDED FOR HUMAN
CONSUMPTION: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES AT ITALIAN AND EU
LEVEL
Luca Lucentini, Edoardo Menichini, Lucia Bonadonna, Emanuele Ferretti, Giovanni Citti,
Mattea Chirico, Paola Pettine, Massimo Ottaviani
1-10
DERMOTOXICITY OF PALYTOXIN AFTER CUTANEOUS EXPOSURE
Marco Pelin, Caterina Zanette, Chiara Florio, Nicola Ungaro, Silvio Sosa, Aurelia Tubaro
1-11
GLOBAL WARMING; CONSEQUENSES ON HUMAN ACTIVITIES & WATER
RESOURCES
Reza Rahimi, Fereshteh Jaderi, Navid Mollaee, Sepideh Tavassoli
1-12
FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGES
Yaser Sadeghi, Jalal Amini
1-13
TOXIC AND GENOTOXIC EFFECTS OF VANADIUM IN VOLCANIC GROUNDWATER
DESTINED TO HUMAN CONSUMPTION
Enrico Veschetti, Eugenia Cordelli, Riccardo Crebelli, Anna Maria Fresegna, Paola
Leopardi, Massimo Ottaviani, Ester Siniscalchi, Paola Villani
1-14
THE SIMULATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGICAL OF DESERTIFICATION
PHENOMENA IN LIBYA
Fathi Elosta
1-15
NON-CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES IN COASTAL AREAS: REUSE OF
SEAWATER THROUGH A BEACH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Lucia Bonadonna, Agnese Delicato, Simonetta Della Libera, Maurizio Semproni
TOPIC 2
Persistent organic pollutants
and reproductive health
2-1
MONITORING OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS IN ITALIAN SURFACE WATER AND
IN WATER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION BY LC-MS/MS
Laura Achene, Sara Bogialli, Luca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani
2-2
EXPOSURE TO BISPHENOL A: SEX-RELATED REPRODUCTIVE RISKS
Lidia Caporossi, Alessandra Pera, Bruno Papaleo
2-3
ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUE
Fulvio Ferrara, Nicoletta Ademollo, Leopoldo Silvestroni, Enzo Funari
2-4
PERSISTENT ORGANOCHLORINES IN HUMAN BREAST MILK FROM SOUTH
BA KA, SERBIA
Tamara Vukavi, Mirjana Vojinovi Miloradov, Jan Sui, Anelka Ristivojevi, Ivana Mihajlovi
2-5
THE HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE VARIATIONS DUE TO
METALWORKING FLUIDS EXPOSURE IN AN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING
PLANT
Abbasali Mokhtari, Farideh Golbabaei, Ashkan Jalili, Amir Kasaiean
2-6
PROTECTING THE KISH ISLAND COASTAL MARINE ZONES BY PROVIDING
MANAGEMENT PLANS FOR SPILL AND OIL POLLUTION
Mosayab Shirani, Mahbobeh Safarnejad, Farshid Morshedi
2-7
PCB AND PBDE LEVELS IN MOTHER’S MILK FROM ROME
Silvia Alivernini, Luigi Turrio Baldassarri, Chiara Laura Battistelli
TOPIC 3
Urban air quality outdoor vs indoor
3-1
COAL DUST IMPACT AND THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE
PULMONARY DISEASE IN EXPOSED WORKERS IN KOSOVO POWER PLANT
Sanije Shala-Xhemajli, Hajrullah Fejza, Enisa Fehmiu, Xhevdet Xhemajli
3-2
INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR VOCS IN URBAN AREA
Sergio Fuselli, Marco De Felice, Roberta Morlino, Anna Santarsiero
3-3
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT ON THE
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE HISTORICAL LAND-COVER
CONVERSION
Jehn-Yih Juang
3-4
TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODULATION OF A HUMAN MONOCYTIC CELL LINE
EXPOSED TO PM10 FROM AN URBAN AREA
Emanuela Bastonini, Loredana Verdone, Stefania Morrone, Angela Santoni, Gaetano
Settimo, Giovanni Marsili, Ernesto Di Mauro, Micaela Caserta
3-5
THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION‘S BRONCHIAL DISEASES EVALUATION FOR
PREVENTION TODAY
Rosa Anna Perricone Somogyi
3-6
POLLUTION OF AN URBAN AREA HOSPITAL: AN INDOOR/OUTDOOR VOCS
STUDY
Anna Santarsiero, Sergio Fuselli, Emanuela Ortolani
3-7
EMISSION OF AIRBORNE SMELLING SUBSTANCES AND HEALTH RISK
ASSESSMENT
Giovanni Ziemacki, Massimiliano Beccaloni, Stefano Moriconi, Fabrizia Colonna, Franco
Palmieri, Nicola Dell‘Amico
TOPIC 4
The appraisal of health risk
from epidemiological and biomonitoring data
4-1
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINES
DERIVED FROM PATIENTS AFFECTED BY MUTYH-ASSOCIATED POLYPOSIS
Flavia Barone, Elisabetta Pin, Maria Teresa Russo, Vitalba Ruggeri, Paolo Degan,
Claudia Pastrello, Pietro Pichierri, Alessandra Viel, Margherita Bignami
4-2
ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH RISKS FROM AMBIENT PAH EXPOSURE
Alena Bartonova, Mirek Dostal, Eva Rychlikova, Radim Sram
4-3
BIOMONITORING OF THE ITALIAN POPULATION EXPOSED TO ENVIRONMENTAL
METALS: THE PROBE PROJECT
Beatrice Bocca, Daniela Mattei, Anna Pino, Alessandro Alimonti
4-4
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF CONTAMINATED SITES: AIMS, PROCEDURES
AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THE ITALIAN SENTIERI PROJECT
Pietro Comba, Francesco Bianchi, Susanna Conti, Ivano Iavarone, Marco Martuzzi, Loredana Musmeci, Roberta Pirastu, SENTIERI Working Group
4-5
DEPLETED URANIUM IN HAIR BY ISOTOPE RATIO QUADRUPOLE INDUCTIVELY
COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY
Sonia D’Ilio, Nicola Violante, Oreste Senofonte, Costanza Majorani, Francesco Petrucci
4-6
A CHRONIC IN VIVO EXPOSURE TO FURAN INDUCE OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE
AND MICRONUCLEI
Gabriele De Luca, Maria Teresa Russo, Paola Leopardi, Patrizia Cremona, Paolo
Degan, Tania Pannellini, Piero Musiani, Margherita Bignami
4-7
DROWNING AND NEAR-DROWNING IN SWIMMING POOLS IN ITALY:
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA DERIVED FROM THE PUBLIC PRESS IN 2008-2009
Stefania De Angelis, Giancarlo Donati, Marina Torre, Lucia Bonadonna
4-8
HUMAN BIOMONITORING OF HEAVY METALS IN THE VICINITY OF NONFERROUS METALS INDUSTRIES IN ATH, WALLONIA
Sébastien Fierens, Javiera Rebolledo, Vincent Haufroid, Ann Versporten, Ethel Brits,
Pierre De Plaen, Herman Van Oyen, An Van Nieuwenhuyse
4-9
EXPOSURE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION OF SARDINIA (ITALY) TO CADMIUM
FROM SMOKING CIGARETTES
Giovanni Forte, Roberto Madeddu, Yolande Asara, Paola Tolu, Beatrice Bocca
4-10
RESIDENTIAL PESTICIDES EXPOSURE AND MELANOMA
Cristina Fortes, Simona Mastroeni, Franco Melchi, Maria Antonietta Pilla, Massimo Alotto,
Gianluca Antonelli, Diana Campione, Simone Bolli, Elizabeta Luchetti, Paolo Pasquini
4-11
ASSESSMENT OF CYTOTOXICITY AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCED BY THE
CARCINOGEN FURAN IN LIVER AND SPLEEN CELLS OF B6C3F1 MICE
Paola Leopardi, Eugenia Cordelli, Paola Villani, Caterina Macrì, Fiorella MalchiodiAlbedi, Stefania Caiola, Andrea Zijno, Gabriele De Luca, Riccardo Crebelli
4-12
ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL RISK OF CANCER - PERCEPTION AND
AWARENESS STUDIES AMONG STUDENTS
Antonina Cebulska-Wasilewska, Renata Majewska, Zbigniew Drg, Paweł Migula
4-13
GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF TOXICITY AND DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE
GENES IN THE LIVER OF FURAN-TREATED MICE
Francesca Marcon, Paola Leopardi, Ester Siniscalchi, Luigi Conti, Riccardo Crebelli
4-14
EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS MIGRATED FROM PACKAGING TO FOODS:
MIGRATION OF COMPONENTS OF PRINTING INKS
Maria Rosaria Milana, Marinella Collauto, Massimo Denaro, Roberta Feliciani, Cinzia
Gesumundo, Silvia Giamberardini, Antonino Maggio, Antonella Maini, Giorgio Padula,
Oronzo Panico
4-15
STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND RESIDENTIAL RISKS OF PETROCHEMICAL
EMPLOYEES IN GELA POLLUTED SITE, ITALY
Roberto Pasetto, Amerigo Zona, Achille Cernigliaro, Roberta Pirastu, Gabriella
Dardanoni, Sebastiano Pollina Addario, Salvatore Scondotto, Pietro Comba
4-16
CADMIUM CONCENTRATION IN BIOLOGICAL MEDIA OF BREAST CANCER
PATIENTS
Loreta Strumylaite, Algirdas Bogusevicius, Oleg Abdrakhmanov, Dale Baranauskiene,
Rima Kregzdyte, Darius Pranys, Lina Poskiene
4-17
ITALIAN SURVEYS OF BEHAVIOUR AND LIFESTYLES AFFECTING EXPOSURE
TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
Caterina Vollono, Anna Bastone, Maria Eleonora Soggiu
4-18
ASSESSMENT OF TOXIC METALS IN EYE SHADOWS: A PILOT STUDY
Beatrice Bocca, Maria Ciprotti, Daniela De Orsi, Luigi Gagliardi, Sergio Costantini
4-19
COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF NOTIFIED CASES OF WATERBORNE
DISEASES IN THE AREA OF ROME, ITALY
Lucia Bonadonna, Rossella Briancesco, Marco Di Porto
4-20
SURVEY ON MINOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN ANTARCTIC AND ARCTIC BIOTA
AS INDICATORS OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL-SCALE POLLUTION
Paola Bottoni, Sergio Caroli
4-21
DNA REPAIR MECHANISMS IN PAEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES:
POTENTIAL CLINIC IMPLICATIONS
Ida Casorelli, Paola De Angelis, Cinzia Bascietto, Federica Chiera, Eliana Lupari, Paolo
Degan, Margherita Bignami, Eugenia Dogliotti, Luigi Dall’Oglio, Paola Fortini
4-22
THE RESPONSE TO DNA DAMAGE OF TERMINALLY DIFFERENTIATED CELLS
Paola Fortini, Laura Narciso, Roberta Castino, Deborah Pajalunga, Eleonora Puggioni,
Barbara Pascucci, Marco Crescenzi, Ciro Isidoro, Eugenia Dogliotti
4-23
THE ROLE OF COCKAYNE SYNDROME PROTEINS IN THE REPAIR OF ENDOGENOUS DNA DAMAGE
Tiziana Lemma, Paolo Degan, Eleonora Parlanti, Barbara Pascucci, Angelo Salvatore
Calcagnile, Laura Narciso, Valeria Simonelli, Miria Stefanini, Jan de Wit, Gijsbertus T.J.
van der Horst, Eugenia Dogliotti, Maria Rosaria D’Errico
4-24
THE ROLE OF NER DAMAGE RECOGNITION FACTORS IN THE REPAIR OF OXIDATIVE DNA LESIONS
Eleonora Parlanti, Maria Rosaria D’Errico, Tiziana Lemma, Paolo Degan, Ingrid van der
Pluijm, Gijsbertus T.J. van der Horst, Denis S.F. Biard, Eugenia Dogliotti
4-25
LOSS OF MLH1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH UPREGULATION OF DNA POLYMERASE
BETA IN GASTRIC CANCERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHEMIOTHERAPY
Valeria Simonelli, Maria Rosaria D’Errico, Domenico Palli, Alessandro Giuliani, Eugenia Dogliotti
4-26
LYMPHOCYTES FROM INDIVIDUALS CARRYING THE OGG1-S326C POLYMORPHIC VARIANT PRESENT A LOWER CLEAVAGE ACTIVITY OF 8-OXOGUANINE:
EFFECTS OF GENE EXPRESSION AND OXIDATION STATUS
Valeria Simonelli, Filomena Mazzei, Maria Rosara D’Errico, Simonetta Guarrera, Flavia
Barone, Serena Camerini, Laura Narciso, Anna Minoprio, Alessandra Allione, Marco
Crescenzi, Magnar Bjoras, Giuseppe Matullo, Eugenia Dogliotti
POSTER SESSION 2
Thursday, December 10, 2009
9.30 – 18.30
Aula Marotta
TOPIC 5
Emerging pathogenic microorganisms –
Need for a better understanding
of human health implications
5-1
MARINE EMERGING PATHOGENS: NEED AND TOOL
Luciana Croci, Loredana Cozzi, Elisabetta Suffredini, Stefania Marcheggiani, Camilla
Puccinelli, Laura Mancini, Francesca Anna Aulicino
5-2
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HUMAN NOROVIRUS GENOGROUP I AND II IN
URBAN SEWAGES IN DIVERSE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS IN ITALY
Giuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Manoochehr Pourshaban, Michele Muscillo
5-3
QUANTITATIVE DETECTION OF ENTERIC VIRUSES IN INFLUENT AND EFFLUENT
SAMPLES FROM WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Manoochehr Pourshaban, Giuseppina La Rosa, Marcello Iaconelli, Michele Muscillo
5-4
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA IN TWO
HOSPITALS IN MILAN
Marina Tesauro, Michela Consonni, Annalisa Bianchi, Fabrizio Pregliasco, Maria
Gabriella Galli
5-5
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN VEGETABLES FOOD: AN INTEGRATED
APPROACH FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Laura Toti, Giancarlo Durante, Paola Picotto, Raffaello Lena, Elisabetta Delibato, Simona
Di Pasquale, Dario De Medici, Federico Capuano, Vincenzo Caligiuri, Renzo Mioni,
Francesca Anna Aulicino, Laura Mancini, Raffaele Scenati, Stefania Marcheggiani,
Maria De Giusti, Ida Luzzi
5-6
AUTOMATIC FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS OF DISINFECTANT RESIDUES IN
HOSPITAL HOT WATER NETWORKS DISINFECTED AGAINST LEGIONELLA WITH
H2O2-AG
Enrico Veschetti, Laura Achene, Emanuele Ferretti, Valentina Melini, Maria Luisa Ricci,
Massimo Ottaviani
TOPIC 6
The environmental hypothesis
in neurodegenerative diseases
6-1
EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES AND RISK OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL
SCLEROSIS: A POPULATION-BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDY
Francesca Bonvicini, Marco Vinceti
6-2
A RAT MODEL OF EARLY PHASES OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE: AN INNOVATIVE
TOOL TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE
ONSET AND PROGRESSION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
Ivana D‘Andrea, Igor Branchi, Monica Armida, Tommaso Cassano, Antonella Pèzzola,
Rosa Luisa Potenza, Maria Grazia Morgese, Patrizia Popoli, Enrico Alleva
6-3
ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DECREASED
REELIN LEVELS, MALE SEX, AND MERCURY EXPOSURE
Flavio Keller, Filippo Biamonte, Laura Latini, Maria Teresa Viscomi, Marco Molinari,
Sonia D’Ilio, Costanza Majorani, Francesco Petrucci, Nicola Violante, Oreste Senofonte
6-4
POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SELENIUM IN THE ETIOLOGY
OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Marco Vinceti, Francesca Bonvicini, Margherita Bergomi, Carlotta Malagoli
TOPIC 7
Waste management
7-1
PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE DISPOSAL IN A DISUSED OPEN QUARRY:
ASSESSMENT OF ITS EFFECTS ON A GROUNDWATER
Anna Barra Caracciolo, Paola Grenni
7-2
EFFECTS OF IRON NANOPARTICLES FROM SOIL OR GROUNDWATER
REMEDIATION ON MEDAKA (ORYZIAS LATIPES) FISH
Pei-Jen Chen, Chih-Shiang Su, Chi-Yen Tsen
7-3
RISK ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE APPLLIED TO LANDFILL
Federica Scaini, Maria Rita Cicero, Sabrina Fasciani, Cristina Romanello
7-4
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE HEALTH IMPACT OF TOXIC WASTE DUMPING
SITES IN CAMPANIA
Lucia Fazzo, Marco De Santis, Pietro Comba
7-5
AIRBORNE MICROORGANISMS RELATED TO WASTE MANAGEMENT AND
RECOVERY: BIOMONITORING METHODOLOGIES
Anna Maria Coccia, Paola Margherita Bianca Gucci, Ines Lacchetti, Rosa Paradiso
7-6
HEALTH RISKS FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL: THE NEED FOR
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION
Daniela Marsili, Lucia Fazzo, Pietro Comba
7-7
THE IMPACT MEASURE OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ON HEALTH: THE
WASTE INDEX
Loredana Musmeci, Mirella Bellino, Fabrizio Falleni, Augusta Piccardi
7-8
RISK ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE APPLIED TO LANDFILL
Federica Scaini, Maria Rita Cicero, Sabrina Fasciani, Cristina Romanello
7-9
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CRITICALITY IN SUBURBAN AREAS WITH DUMPING SITES IN SOUTHERN ITALY
Stefania Trinca, Luciana Cossa, Giovanna Martini
7-10
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATION: THE ITALIAN SITUATION
Giuseppe Viviano, Gaetano Settimo, Pasquale De Stefanis, Giovanni Marsili
7-11
CONSTRUCTED WETLAND PERFORMANCE FOR THE REUSE OF
ZOOTECHNICAL WASTEWATER: FATE OF GIARDIA AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUM
Rossella Briancesco, Lucia Bonadonna
7-12
OPEN DUMPING OF SOLID WASTE AND THE IMPACT ON HEALTH (A CASE
STUDY OF SLUM IN UNIT 7 LATIFABAD) SINDH PAKISTAN
Khadija Qureshi Inamulah Bhatti, Kamram A. Qureshii
7-13
DETERMINANTS OF THE SUCCESS OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE RECYCLING
PRACTICES IN ITALIAN REGIONS: MODELS OF GOVERNANCE
Ferruccio Pelone, Vito Cerabona, Andrea Poscia, Marta Marino, Antonio Giulio De Belvis
Umberto Moscato, Walter Ricciardi
TOPIC 8
The impact of agricultural activities
on environment and health
8-1
THE MOUSE MODEL OF CYPRESS ALLERGY: A NEW CONTRIBUTION TO THE
EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH RISK OF THE REFORESTATION
Lucia Gabriele, Giovanna Schiavoni, Fabrizio Mattei, Massimo Sanchez, Paola Sestili,
Claudia Afferni
8-2
DETERMINATION OF MALACHIT GREEN AS AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTER IN
TROUT TISSUE AND WATER OF THE FISH FARMS
Mohammad Mehdi Amin, Abbas Khodabakhshi, Hojjat Sadeghi, Soleiman Kheiri, Mehdi
Hajian
8-3
AGRICULTURAL SOILS POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED: RISK ASSESSMENT
PROCEDURE CASE STUDIES
Eleonora Beccaloni, Fabiana Vanni, Silvana Giovannangeli, Mario Carere
8-4
CHLORPYRIFOS BIOTRANSFORMATION: WHICH IS THE METABOLIC
CONTRIBUTION OF HUMAN SMALL INTESTINE TO TOTAL METABOLISM?
Claudia Leoni, Maria Balduzzi, Emma Di Consiglio, Laura Turco, Franca Maria Buratti,
Emanuela Testai
8-5
CHILDREN‘S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES:
NEUROBEHAVIOURAL
EFFECTS
OF
THE
ORGANOPHOSPHATE
CHLORPYRIFOS IN ANIMAL MODELS
Gemma Calamandrei, Aldina Venerosi Pesciolini, Angela Rungi, Maria Luisa Scattoni,
Laura Ricceri
8-6
REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS BY SUPERCRITICAL EXTRACTION:
ATRAZINE CASE
Teresa Castelo-Grande, Paulo A. Augusto, Paulo Monteiro, Angel M. Estevez, Domingos
Barbosa
8-7
COMPARISON OF NEW METHODS WITH INTENSIVE METHOD FOR COLLECTING
ARTHROPODS DATA IN RICE FIELD
Chaigarun Supaporn, Kessomboon Nusaraporn, Kessomboon Pattapong, Somboon
Singkiburt, Peerayos Khangkhan, Thinkhamrop Bandit
8-8
PESTICIDES IN ITALIAN FRESHWATER AND RELATED RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH
Luca Fava, Maria Antonietta Orrù, Simona Scardala, Elena Alonzo, Maristella Fardella,
Caterina Strumia, Angiolo Martinelli, Sabrina Finocchiaro, Massimo Previtera,
Alessandro Franchi, Piergiuseppe Calà, Mauro Dovis, Donatella Bartoli, Giuseppe
Sartori, Lia Broglia, Enzo Funari
8-9
INDIAN SCENARIO ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN WATER RESOURCES
Tanu Jindal, Khushbu Gulathi
8-10
MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT OF INLAND AQUACULTURE
Laura Mancini, Francesca Anna Aulicino, Stefania Marcheggiani, Anna Maria D‘Angelo,
Elio Pierdominici, Camilla Puccinelli, Raffaele Scenati, Lorenzo Tancioni
8-11
MEASUREMENT OF RESIDUES OF COMMONLY USED INSECTICIDES
(ENDOSULFAN AND PHOSALON) FOR CONTROLLING COLORADO POTATO
BEETLE
Fatemeh Nasehi, Ghadir Nouri Ghanbalani, Mohammad Zaeefizade, Hussein Shahbazi
8-12
PESTICIDES AND FILIPINO RICE FARMERS HEALTH
Florencia G. Palis, Satish Kedia
8-13
REVIEW OF LABEL CLASSIFICATION OF ITALIAN PLANT PROTECTION
PRODUCTS AFTER SECOND ADAPTATION OF THE DIRECTIVE 99/45/EU
Laura Fornarelli, Susanna Bascherini, Maristella Rubbiani
8-14
ANALYSIS OF HERBICIDE RESIDUES BY QUECHERS METHOD IN THE
FRAMEWORK OF NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY FOR SINGLE
METHODS
Angela Santilio, Patrizia Stefanelli, Silvana Girolimetti, Roberto Dommarco
8-15
TERBUTHYLAZINE IN ITALIAN WATER BODIES
Paola Bottoni, Luca Lucentini, Massimo Ottaviani
8-16
PESTICIDES CONTAMINATION IN FOOD: METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF
PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN EGGS
Patrizia Pelosi, Tiziana Generali, Graziella Amendola, Roberto Dommarco
8-17
PHYTOREMEDIATION
OF
ARSENIC
CONTAMINATED
SOIL
USING
BIODEGRADABLE CHELATING LIGAND HYDROXYIMINODISUCCINIC ACID
(HIDS)
Mohammed Azizur Rahman, Kohta Kadohashi, Teruya Maki, Hiroshi Hasegawa
8-18
ROLE OF DNA POLYMERASE KAPPA IN THE CYTOTOXIC PROCESSING OF O6METHYLGUANINE IN HUMAN CELLS
Ilenia Ventura, Eliana Lupari, Francesca Marcon, Gabriele Aquilina, Eugenia Dogliotti,
Margherita Bignami, Paola Fortini
8-19
THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ON ECOLOGY AND HEALTH
CARE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Narine Harutyunyan