EPA Expands Pending Arsenic Assessment To Dermal, Inhalation Risks

摘要

Draft documents that EPA recently submitted to a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel show that officials are maintaining their first-time plan to estimate the inhalation risks of arsenic as requested by the air office, while expanding the assessment to weigh potential dermal risks - even though the panel is slated to review only the agency's assessment of ingestion risks. "The toxicological review will consider the cancer and non-cancer health effects of oral, inhalation, and dermal exposures to inorganic arsenic," according to a draft planning and scoping document, which EPA provided to the NAS arsenic committee late last month. Relevant documents are available on InsideEPA.com. See page for 2 details.