A University of California expert panel will meet on Wednesday, July 25, at UC Davis to hear public testimony regarding the potential of chromium-6 to cause cancer when ingested. The recommendations of the panel will assist the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in the development of a Public Health Goal for chromium-6 in drinking water. The panel's recommendations will also help OEHHA and the Department of Health Services assess the health risks associated with the presence of chromium-6 in drinking water in California's San Fernando Valley. The panel was created in March by Cal/EPA to review the scientific issues. It is expected to hold this public meeting and issue a report this summer. The panel is chaired by UC Davis professor of pulmonary medicine Jerold Last, Ph.D., who is director of the UC Toxic Substances Teaching and Research Program (TSRTP). The panel will receive testimony on these subjects as they relate to chromium-6 toxicity by the oral route of exposure: toxicology, rat and/or mouse pathology, animal cancer bioassays, epidemiology, human physiology and/or biological chemistry, pharmacokinetics and risk assessment methodology. The meeting will be convened on July 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on the UC Davis campus. For program details, directions and parking information, see http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/chemicals/Chromium6/Cr+6panelmeeting.htm. To park free for an unlimited time in any legal parking space on campus, media should put a business card on their dashboard.