Warn Public of Risk Solvent Poses to Babies, Groups Tell EPA

摘要

A widely used solvent poses such great risks to babies’ development that the EPA should immediatelywarn the public, a coalition of environmental and health groups told the agency Oct. 9.A draft EPA risk evaluation showed laboratory animals exposed to sufficient concentrations of the solvent,1-bromopropane, gave birth to smaller litters, had fewer offspring survive, and gave birth to progeny withaltered skeletal development. Problems laboratory animals experience following their exposure tochemicals typically are presumed to mean those chemicals may harm people in similar ways.