EPA recently released the “Toxicological Review of Benzene (Noncancer Effects),” a report that describes the potential non-cancer health hazards associated with environmental exposures to benzene. Benzene, an industrial solvent, is a component of gasoline and is also used in the manufacture of plastics, detergents and pesticides.

The review supplements two previously released human health assessments of benzene and will be used to inform the agency’s future risk assessments and regulation of benzene sources. It concludes that chronic benzene exposure may pose several types of noncancer human health hazards and provides estimates of chronic exposure levels for oral exposure (reference dose) and inhalation exposure (reference concentration) that are thought to be without appreciable risk.

Discover more of the EPA’s findings by following this link or contact David Bayliss at (202) 564-3294 or bayliss.david@epa.gov.