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Bevington, C., C. Fehrenbacher, M. Lee, AND X. Liu. Indoor Exposure Product Testing Protocols Version 2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2017.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) assesses exposures, including consumer exposure, for its New and Existing Chemicals Programs as part of its mission to assess and manage risks from chemical substances. Various organizations have several existing approaches to test their products for potential emissions and exposures from consumer products and articles. Consequently, these testing protocols are not harmonized resulting in variation in how testing is performed and data used to inform exposure assessments.

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EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed a set of ten indoor exposure testing protocols intended to provide information on the purpose of the testing, general description of the sampling and analytical procedures, and references for tests that will be used to inform and refine estimates of indoor exposures. The scope of these protocols is limited to testing chemicals in consumer products and articles, including building materials, used in indoor environments. These protocols are general in nature and will need to be tailored to the specific type of chemical to be analyzed, the particular product or article which is being evaluated, and the data quality objective for the testing. Most protocols were developed based on existing standard test methods. In the absence of standard methods, the most commonly used methods found in the literature were used.

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