Application of Health Information To Hazardous Air Pollutants Modeled in Epa's Cumulative Exposure Project

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 429-454

  Caldwell, Jane C ^a   Woodruff, Tracey J ^a   Morello Frosch, Rachel ^b   Axelrad, Daniel A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; ATSDR; CAA; CAL EPA; California Environmental Protection Agency; CERCLA; Clean Air Act and amendments of 1990; Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act; ED 10; effective dose for a 10 percent cancer response above background; EPA; GWP; HAPs; Hazardous Air pollutant as defined in the Clean Air Act of 1990; HCP; IARC; IDLHs; immediately dangerous to life and health levels; inhalation reference concentration; inhalation reference concentration for developmental toxicity; Inhalation Unit Risk; International Agency for Research on Cancer; IUR; Level of Concern; LOC; Minimal Risk Levels; MRLs; National Toxicology Program; nitrogen oxides; NOx; NTP; pollutant identified as being of concern in the Great Waters report to Congress; pollutant identified for severe toxicity from relatively low long or short term exposure in the section 112(g) hazard ranking; reference dose; Reference Exposure Levels; RELs; RfC; RfCdt; RfD; SARA; SO2; sulfur dioxides; Superfund Admendments and Reauthorization Act; United States Environmental Protection Agency

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BERYLLIUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; CYANIDE; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SELENIUM;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 0031901107     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/074823379801400304     Document Type: Article

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