Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals
Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals By Subcommittee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council, National Research Council
2001 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 030907553X | PDF | 3 MB
2001 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 030907553X | PDF | 3 MB
"Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals" contains a detailed and comprehensive methodology for developing acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for toxic substances from inhalation exposures. The book provides guidance on what documents and databases to use, toxicity endpoints that need to be evaluated, dosimetry corrections from animal to human exposures, selection of appropriate uncertainty factors to address the variability between animals and humans and within the human population, selection of modifying factors to address data deficiencies, time scaling, and quantitative cancer risk assessment. It also contains an example of a summary of a technical support document and an example of AEGL derivation. This book will be useful to persons in the derivation of levels from other exposure routes - both oral and dermal - as well as risk assessors in the government, academe, and private industry.