Seeing Beyond the Smoke: Selecting Waterpipe Wastewater Chemicals for Risk Assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing use prevalence of waterpipe tobacco smoking raises concerns about environmental impacts from waterpipe waste disposal. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is required to assess the environmental impact of its tobacco regulatory actions per the National Environmental Policy Act. This study builds on FDA's efforts characterizing the aquatic toxicity of waterpipe wastewater chemicals.

Methods

We compiled a comprehensive list of waterpipe wastewater chemical concentrations from literature. We then selected chemicals for risk assessment by estimating persistence, bioaccumulation, and aquatic toxicity characteristics (PBT; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), and hazardous concentration values (concentration affecting specific proportion of species)

SUBMITTER: Termeh-Zonoozi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10866395 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature