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Controversy in the regulation of formaldehyde

✍ Scribed by Philip J. Landrigan; Frederica P. Perera

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-3586
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.4700140403

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Controversy in the Regulation of Formaldehyde

In December 1987, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reduced the standard for occupational exposure to formaldehyde from 3 parts per million (ppm), averaged over an 8-hour work day to 1 ppm [OSHA, 19871. This is the latest but clearly not the last chapter in the lengthy saga of formaldehyde, a chemical of public health significance in its own right and a lightning rod for debate over general principles of carcinogen risk assessment and cancer policy [Perera and Petito, 19821. The regulation comes 8 years after the release of preliminary data by the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology showing that animals exposed to formaldehyde vapor developed cancer of the nasal sinuses [Swenberg et al., 19801; those data were corroborated by findings from an animal toxicology study conducted at New York University [Albert et al., 19821. The new standard comes 6 years after

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