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REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
卷 80, 期 -, 页码 125-133出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2016.06.013
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Trichloroethylene; Safety range; Risk management; Uncertainty factor; Non-cancer hazard; Short-term exposure; Reference dose/concentration; Vapor intrusion; Sensitive subpopulation; Indoor air
A method for determining a safety range for non-cancer risks is proposed, similar in concept to the range used for cancer in the management of waste sites. This safety range brings transparency to the chemical specific Reference Dose or Concentration by replacing their order of magnitude definitions with a scientifically-based range. EPA's multiple RfCs for trichloroethylene (TCE) were evaluated as a case study. For TCE, a multi-endpoint safety range was judged to be 3 mu g/m(3) to 30 mu g/m(3) based on a review of kidney effects found in NTP (1988), thymus effects found in Keil et al. (2009) and cardiac effects found in the Johnson et al. (2003) study. This multi-endpoint safety range is derived from studies for which the appropriate averaging time corresponds to different exposure durations, and, therefore, can be applied to both long- and short-term exposures with appropriate consideration of exposure averaging times. For shorter-term exposures, averaging time should be based on the time of cardiac development in humans during fetal growth, an average of approximately 20-25 days. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.
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