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Health risks from exposure to noise from personal music playersAbout the Scientific CommitteesThree independent non-food Scientific Committees provide the Commission with thescientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumersafety, public health and the environment. The Committees also draw the Commission'sattention to the new or emerging problems which may pose an actual or potential threat.They are: the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), the ScientificCommittee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) and the Scientific Committee onEmerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) and are made up of externalexperts.In addition, the Commission relies upon the work of the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA), the European Centre forDisease prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).SCENIHRQuestions concerning emerging or newly-identified risks and on broad, complex or multidisciplinaryissues requiring a comprehensive assessment of risks to consumer safety orpublic health and related issues not covered by other Community risk- assessmentbodies.In particular, the Committee addresses questions related to potential risks associatedwith interaction of risk factors, synergic effects, cumulative effects, antimicrobialresistance, new technologies such as nanotechnologies, medical devices, tissueengineering, blood products, fertility reduction, cancer of endocrine organs, physicalhazards such as noise and electromagnetic fields and methodologies for assessing newrisks.Scientific Committee membersAnders Ahlbom, James Bridges, Wim De Jong, Philippe Hartemann, Thomas Jung,Mats-Olof Mattsson, Jean-Marie Pagès, Konrad Rydzynski, Dorothea Stahl, MogensThomsen.Contact:European CommissionHealth & Consumer Protection DGDirectorate C: Public Health and Risk AssessmentUnit C7 - Risk AssessmentOffice: B232 B-1049 BrusselsSanco-Sc1-Secretariat@ec.europa.eu© European Commission 2008The opinions of the Scientific Committees present the views of the independent scientistswho are members of the committees. They do not necessarily reflect the views of theEuropean Commission. The opinions are published by the European Commission in theiroriginal language only.http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/risk_en.htm2
Health risks from exposure to noise from personal music playersACKNOWLEDGMENTSMembers of the working group are acknowledged for their valuable contribution to thisopinion. The members of the working group are:SCENIHR members:Prof. Konrad Rydzynski (Chair)Dr. Thomas JungExternal experts:Dr. Yves Cazals, Université Paul Cézanne, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Marseille,France.Prof. Adrian Davis 1 , OBE FFPH FSS FRSA, Director NHS Newborn Hearing ScreeningProgramme, Director MRC Hearing and Communication Group, University of Manchester,Manchester, UK.Prof. Staffan Hygge 2 , Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Centre for Built Environment,University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden.Prof. Deepak Prasher 3 , Ear Institute, University College London, London, UK.Dr. Paolo Ravazzani 4 , Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica CNR, Milano, Italy.Prof. Mariola Śliwińska-Kowalska 5 , MD, PhD (Rapporteur). Centre of Audiology andPhoniatrics, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lódz, Poland.Dr. Hans Verschuure 6 , Secretary-General International Society of Audiology, ENT-Hearingand Speech Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.1 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_020.pdf ;http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_021.pdf)2 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_021.pdf)3 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_020.pdf)4 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_020.pdf)5 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_020.pdf ;http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_023.pdf)6 Declared interest (see the minutes of the SCENIHR Plenary:http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_020.pdf)3
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