Understanding the Full Picture of Chemical and Environmental Exposures Regulators, industry, and the public are increasingly focused on the combined effects of multiple… read more
Author Archives: ricknelson
13 State AG’s Issue Guidance – Environmental Justice Initiatives Remain Necessary and Legal
Multi-State Guidance Affirming the Importance and Legality of Environmental Justice Initiatives The Attorneys General of California, Massachusetts, and New York, joined by… read more
MTAP is a promising target for cancer therapy.
EpidStrategies’ scientists Mina Suh, Naimisha Movva, and Sue Pastula have authored a new systematic literature review in Cancer Treatment and Research Communications. This… read more
Opportunity for Updates on State Environmental Justice Programs and Cumulative Impact Assessment Requirements: Timely and Effective Solutions
Executive Orders issued since President Trump’s inauguration have eliminated all federal programs relating to environmental justice (EJ), including at EPA. Nevertheless, the need… read more
ToxStrategies Expands Expertise in Regulatory Toxicology
ToxStrategies’ scientists publish paper on consumer product exposure to vinyl acetate monomer
ToxStrategies’ scientists Jennifer Bare, Mandie Kramer, and Susan Borghoff are excited share their new paper on consumer product exposure to vinyl acetate monomer (VAM). The team partnered with the Vinyl Acetate Council, who provided funding for the research, and analytical chemists and toxicologists from LyondellBasell Industries, who developed methods for determining VAM in a variety of consumer products. ToxStrategies subsequently modeled consumer exposure to a variety of household products containing residual VAM using EPA’s Consumer Exposure Model and RIVM’s ConsExpo. The study marks a significant contribution to the field, as it both presents an analytical methodology for detecting VAM in consumer products and demonstrates that, for the products evaluated, potential VAM exposure is less than acute and chronic health thresholds for the general public, based on the modeled exposure scenarios and assumptions.
The open access publication in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology is free to read and download, here:
