Military Researchers Advise Less Stringent Risk Level For Explosive RDX

摘要

Military researchers are suggesting that EPA and other federal agencies use a non-cancer risk level less stringent than the current EPA standard for the explosive RDX - a contaminant at military sites - as a result of a new modeling approach the researchers applied to both old and new data. The Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) has already delayed the release of a new final toxicological profile for RDX in order to get the new Department of Defense (DOD)-sponsored research into the final document, according to an ATSDR spokesman.