Publications

Bogar L, Yale K, Allen L, Burns A. Airborne silica from bentonite clay cat litter: An evaluation of potential non-occupational exposure and respiratory health risks. Abstract 4760, Society of Toxicology 64^th Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2025.

Ierardi AM, Burns AM, Bernstein DM. 2024. Talc. In: Paustenbach DJ, Farland WH, Klaunig J, Levy L, Greim H (eds), Patty’s Toxicology, 7th Edition. Wiley.

Ierardi AM, Burns A, Urban A, Finley B. 2024. A risk assessment of cosmetic talc for the development of mesothelioma and ovarian cancer. Chapter 13 in: Paustenbach DJ (ed), Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice, Third Edition. Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-119-74296-8, pp. 541–570.

Burns AM, Ierardi AM. Risk evaluation of inhaled particulates during pressed powder makeup application. Abstract 3602, Society of Toxicology 63rd Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2024.

Bogar L, Burns A, Ierardi M, Yale K. Updated potential airborne asbestos exposure and risk associated with the historical use of cosmetic talcum powder products. Abstract 3607, Society of Toxicology 63rd Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2024.

Burns AM, Barlow CA, Banducci AM, Unice KM, Sahmel J. 2019. Letter to the editor: Response to letter to the editor (Finkelstein 39(12):2601-2603). Risk Anal 39(12):2604-2607; doi: 10.1111/risa.13418. PMID: 31797415.

Hollins D, Burns A, Unice K, Paustenbach DJ. 2019. An analysis of workplace exposures to asbestos at three steel mills located in the United States (1972-1982). Toxicol Ind Health 35(11-12):726-737; doi: 10.1177/0748233719893905. PMID: 31818240.

Burns AM, Barlow CA, Banducci AM, Unice KM, Sahmel J. 2019. Potential airborne asbestos exposure and risk associated with the historical use of cosmetic talcum powder products. Risk Anal 39(10):2272-2294; doi: 10.1111/risa.13312. PMID: 30980426.

Shay Hynds EC, Ierardi AM, Burns AM, Finley BL. Derivation of a chronic oral RfD for antimony. Abstract 3448, Society of Toxicology 57^th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2018.

Burns AM, Benson SM, Best E, Hollins DM, Finley BL. An ecological epidemiology investigation of talc consumption in the US and trends in female cancer rates. Poster presentation at Society of Toxicology 57^th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2018.

Burns A, Shin J, Unice KM, Gaffney SH, Kreider ML, Gelatt RN, Panko JM. 2017. Combined analysis of job and task benzene air exposures among workers at four US refinery operations. Toxicol Ind Health 33(3):193–210; doi: 10.1177/0748233715619072. PMID: 26862134.

Finley BL, Scott PK, Burns AM, Marsh GM. Does PCB exposure cause non-Hodgkins lymphoma? A weight of evidence evaluation. Abstract 3240, Society of Toxicology 56^th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2017.

Burns AM, Unice KM, Banducci AM, Barlow CA, Sahmel J. Potential airborne asbestos exposures associated with the historical use of cosmetic talc products. Abstract 1885, Society of Toxicology 56^th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.

Burns AM, Finley BL. Potential tremolite exposures associated with talc- containing products. Abstract 2672, Society of Toxicology 55^th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2016.

Sahmel J, Avens HJ, Scott PK, Unice K, Burns A, Barlow CA, Madl AK, Henshaw J, Paustenbach DJ. 2015. Measured removal rates of chrysotile asbestos fibers from air and comparison with theoretical estimates based on gravitational settling and dilution ventilation. Inhal Toxicol 27(14):787-801; doi: 10.3109/08958378.2015.1110216. PMID: 26671197.

Sahmel J, Devlin K,  Burns A, Ferracini T, Ground M, Paustenbach D. 2013. An analysis of workplace exposures to benzene over four decades at a petrochemical processing and manufacturing facility (1962-1999). J Toxicol Environ Health A 76(12):723-746; doi: 10.1080/15287394.2013.821393. PMID: 23980839.

Kreider ML, Burns AM, DeRose GH, Panko JM. 2013. Protecting workers from risks associated with nanomaterials: Part II — Best practices in risk management. Occup Safety Health 82(9):20–24.

Kreider ML, Burns AM, DeRose GH, Panko JM. 2013. Protecting workers from risks associated with nanomaterials: Part I — Exposure assessment. Occup Safety Health 82(7):90-1,94. PMID: 23951851.

Barlow CA, Sahmel J, Madl AK, Donovan BL, Gaffney SH, Burns AM, Lee RJ, Van Orden D, Paustenbach DJ. Evaluation of chrysotile adherence to clothing exposed to known airborne asbestos concentrations and subsequent to vigorous shaking. International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) 22nd Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2012.

Gaffney SH, Panko JM, Unice KM, Burns AM, Kreider ML, Gelatt RH, Booher LE, Paustenbach DJ. 2011. Occupational exposure to benzene at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, TX (1978-2006). J Exp Sci Environ Epidemiol 21(2):169–185; doi: 10.1038/jes.2009.53. PMID: 19865071.