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| Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl: Health Risk Uncertainties and Research Directions J. Michael Davis National Center for Environmental Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Abstract
With the way cleared for increased use of the fuel additive methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT) in the United States, the issue of possible public health impacts associated with this additive has gained greater attention. In assessing potential health risks of particulate Mn emitted from the combustion of MMT in gasoline, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not only considered the qualitative types of toxic effects associated with inhaled Mn, but conducted extensive exposure-response analyses using various statistical approaches and also estimated population exposure distributions of particulate Mn based on data from an exposure study conducted in California when MMT was used in leaded gasoline. Because of limitations in available data and the need to make several assumptions and extrapolations, the resulting risk characterization had inherent uncertainties that made it impossible to estimate health risks in a definitive or quantitative manner. To support an improved health risk characterization, further investigation is needed in the areas of health effects, emission characterization, and exposure analysis. -- Environ Health Perspect 106(Suppl 1) :191-201 (1998) . http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1998/Suppl-1/191-201Jdavis/abstract.html Key words: manganese, MMT, risk assessment, inhalation health effects, exposure assessment, reference concentration, fuel additive
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