LSRO's Reduced Risk Review Biological Effects Assessment (BEA) Committee met for the fourth time on the FASEB Campus, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD on October 10-11, 2006. The BEA Committee members present were Mark W. Frampton, M.D., James P. Kehrer, Ph.D., Loren D. Koller, D.V.M., Ph.D., John F. Lechner, Ph.D., and Russell P. Tracy, Ph.D. John A. Ambrose, M.D., F.A.C.C. was in absentia. The Core Committee members present were Elizabeth Anderson, Ph.D. and Carroll E. Cross, M.D. The LSRO staff members present were Michael Falk, Ph.D., Catherine St. Hilaire, Ph.D., Daniel Byrd, Ph.D., Amy M. Brownawell, Ph.D., and Karin French, B.S.

The meeting was held in Executive Session and focused on the development of the committee's report.