Science Inventory

The Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds (FRAP), released in February 2016, is a multi-agency research plan in response to concerns over the use of tire crumb rubber as infill on synthetic turf fields. The FRAP outlines specif...

Recently, concerns have been raised by the public about the use of recycled tire crumb rubber infill at synthetic turf fields in the United States. While the majority of studies identified numerous chemical compounds within the crumb rubber, including volatile organic compounds ...

Tire crumb rubber derived from recycled tires is widely used as infill material in synthetic turf fields in the United States. An estimated 95% of the over 12,000 installed fields in the U.S. use tire crumb rubber infill alone or mixed with sand or alternative materials. Concerns...

Recently, concerns have been raised by the public about the safety of tire crumb rubber infill used in synthetic turf fields. In response, the 2016 Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds (FRAP) was developed to examine key envir...

In 2016, US federal Agencies, specifically, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR), and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) launched the Federal Res...

Concerns have been raised by the public about the safety of recycled tire crumb rubber used in synthetic turf fields and playgrounds in the United States (U.S.). Several studies have been identified that examine potential exposure to tire crumb rubber infill in these settings. Th...

Concerns have been raised about the safety of recycled rubber tire crumbs used in synthetic turf fields and playgrounds in the United States. To support federal efforts to better characterize recycled tire-derived surface materials, dynamic small chamber tests were conducted at...

Recycled tire crumb rubber (TCR) is often used as infill material in synthetic turf playing fields as well as some playgrounds. Concerns have been raised about the safety of this material and a multi-agency Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Field...

Tire crumb rubber from recycled tires is widely used as infill material in the 12,000+ synthetic turf fields in the United States. Tire crumb rubber is a complex material, with many potential chemical substances, presenting challenges for assessing human exposures. As part of U.S...

The U.S. Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds (FRAP) is a multi-agency research plan in response to concerns over the use of tire crumb rubber as infill on synthetic turf fields. The FRAP outlines specific research objectives,...

The U.S. “Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds” is a multi-agency collaborative effort with several research activities. CDC/ATSDR and EPA conducted a tire crumb characterization study and a pilot-scale exposure characterizati...

Concerns have been recently raised about the potential exposures of athletes to chemicals when playing on synthetic turf fields. Previous research has shown that micro-activities (i.e., hand-to mouth and skin-to-surface contacts) are important factors in people’s exposures to che...

The landscape of consumer products is rapidly changing as novel chemicals and materials are designed and incorporated to enhance performance. Science and tools are needed to evaluate exposure and safety of chemicals and materials in the broader context of how these are used in o...

EPA’s Office of Research and Development has generated high-throughput quantitative structure-use relationship (QSUR) models which use the structure of chemicals to predict the end role (functional use) a chemical could play in consumer products and chemical processes. As f...

This presentation will be presented as the third part of a continuing education course at the 2018 ISES-ISEE Meeting in Ottawa, Canada. The course is titled "Application of New Approach Methodologies for Exposure Assessment and Prioritization – Tools for Researchers a...

This presentation covers the Chemical and Products database (CPDat) and how it provides information of chemicals' presence, quantity, and use in consumer products; how machine learning can be used to provide that data when CPDat is missing reported information; and how Suspect-sc...

As part of a U.S. Federal Research Acton Plan to study possible environmental and human health implications of tire crumbs used as infill for synthetic turf, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is evaluating the potential of human exposure to various chemicals from tire cru...