Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Values for Pyrene
Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Value (PPRTV) assessments support the EPA mission to protect human health and the environment by identifying and characterizing the health hazards of chemicals of concern to the Superfund and RCRA Programs, and providing an important source of toxicity information and toxicity values for such chemicals. PPRTVs [provisional oral reference doses (p-RfDs), inhalation reference concentrations (p-RfCs), cancer risk values, and screening values] are derived after a review of the relevant scientific literature and using Agency methodologies, practices, and guidance for the development of toxicity values. Other EPA programs or external parties who choose of their own initiative to use PPRTV values are advised that Superfund resources will not be used to respond to challenges of these PPRTVs used in a context outside of the EPA Superfund Program.
Citation
U.S. EPA. Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Values for Pyrene. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/690/R-07/032F, 2007.
History/Chronology
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Sep 2007 | EPA released the final report. |
| Feb 2019 | A clarification was made to text in the PPRTV assessment that describes the cancer weight-of-evidence descriptor for Pyrene. |
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