EPA Advisers Focus on Consumer Exposures to Cleaning Solvent

摘要

The EPA’s decision to omit consumers’ chronic exposures to a solvent used to clean car brakes and clothesprompted criticism Tuesday from public advocates and questions from agency advisers.The decision could result in the Environmental Protection Agency underestimating the potential health problemsfrom millions of consumers’ uses of perchloroethylene, Robert Sussman, an attorney representing Safer ChemicalsHealthy Families, told the agency’s Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals.