Application of the Draft NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding Process to Bisphenol A: A case study.

ABSTRACT: Bisphenol A is a commercially important chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic, epoxy resins, and other specialty products. Despite an extensive body of in vitro, animal and human observational studies on the effects of exposure to bisphenol A, no authoritative bodies in the U.S. have adopted or recommended occupational exposure limits for bisphenol A. In 2017, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health published a Draft process for assigning health-protective occupational exposure bands, i.e., an airborne concentration range, to chemicals lacking an occupational exposure limit. Occupational exposure banding is a systematic process that uses both quantitative and qualitative toxicity information on selected health effect endpoints to assign an occupational exposure band

SUBMITTER: Hines CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593683 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature