[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: Advisory Board supports EPA review of TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This information appears to be inferred from statements made by 
members of an EPA Science Advisory Board panel this past week. It is not 
an official report of the panel, which is not due until later this year. 
Please excuse duplicate postings. - LS]

Agency finds TCE to be human carcinogen

JACKSONVILLE DAILY NEWS (NC)
May 13, 2010

A federal advisory committee endorsed the Environmental Protection 
Agency's preliminary findings that the chemical solvent 
trichloroethylene (TCE) is a human carcinogen, according to reports from 
the Bureau of National Affairs.

On Wednesday, the EPA's Trichloroethylene Review Panel concluded a 
three-day meeting to review a large draft evaluation of TCE's health 
effects.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/agency-78311-human-committee.html

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