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Potential air toxics hot spots in truck terminals and cabs.
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SUBMITTER: Smith TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5116924 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Potential air toxics hot spots in truck terminals and cabs.
Research report (Health Effects Institute) 20121201 172
<h4>Introduction</h4>Hot spots are areas where concentrations of one or more air toxics--organic vapors or particulate matter (PM)--are expected to be elevated. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA*) screening values for air toxics were used in our definition of hot spots. According to the EPA, a screening value "is used to indicate a concentration of a chemical in the air to which a person could be continually exposed for a lifetime ... and which would be unlikely to result in a dele ...[more]