Assessment Of Dioxin Inhalation Exposures And Potential Health Impacts Following The Collapse Of The World Trade Center Towers

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Abstract

In the days following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York City's World Trade Center (WTC) towers, EPA, other federal agencies, and New York City and New York State public health and environmental authorities initiated numerous air monitoring activities to better understand the ongoing impact of emissions from that disaster. Using these data, EPA conducted an inhalation exposure and human health risk assessment. The overall evaluation focused on particulate matter, metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxin-like compounds, asbestos, and volatile organic compounds. This paper reports on the analysis of dioxin-like compounds only.

Lorber, M. 2003. Assessment of Dioxin Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Impacts Following the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. Organohalogen Compounds 63 (no page numbers).

Impact/Purpose

journal article

Citation

LORBER, M. Assessment Of Dioxin Inhalation Exposures And Potential Health Impacts Following The Collapse Of The World Trade Center Towers. ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDS 63, (2003).

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