IRIS Toxicological Review of Halogenated Platinum Salts and Platinum Compounds (External Review Draft)
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Overview
Citation
U.S. EPA. IRIS Toxicological Review of Halogenated Platinum Salts and Platinum Compounds (External Review Draft). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/635/R-08/018, 2009.
Background
EPA began an assessment of the potential human health effects of halogenated platinum salts in order to address questions focused on the use of a platinum fuel additive in some clean diesel projects under the Diesel Emission Reduction Act.
History/Chronology
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2005 | The IRIS assessment of Halogenated Platinum Salts and Platinum Compounds was initiated in 2005. |
| Feb 2009 | EPA released an updated external review draft for public review and comment. |
| Mar 2009 | EPA announced a public listening session for the draft review report. |
| Apr 2009 | EPA announced an external peer review workshop for the draft review report to be held on May 21st in Washington, DC. |
| Jul 2009 | EPA released the comments from the public comment period and external review workshop. |
| Apr 2013 | EPA announced that the Agency no longer has a need for this assessment. Therefore, the January 2009 draft assessment has been archived. |
Status
EPA has removed the platinum fuel additive from the list of registered additives for use in on-road diesel vehicles. Because of this, the Agency no longer has a need for the IRIS assessment of halogenated platinum salts.
Additional Information
Comments on the draft assessment were submitted to the EPA using the e-Government Regulations.gov Web site. From the site, select Environmental Protection Agency and the keyword EPA-HQ-ORD-2009-0040 (for the docket ID) to see the comments that were submitted.
Download(s)
- Toxicological Review of Halogenated Platinum Salts and Platinum Compounds (Archived External Review Draft) (PDF) (207 pp, 5 MB, about PDF)
- Charge to External Peer Reviewers (PDF) (4 pp, 26 KB, about PDF)
- Consolidated Comments from the External Peer Review (Final) (PDF) (63 pp, 568 KB, about PDF)
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