Towards setting public health guidelines for chemicals in indoor settled dust
2020
Indoor settled dust may result in substantial human exposure to chemicals, especially by ingestion
following hand-to-mouth or hand-to-object-to-mouth contact. As with other environmental media
related to exposure, dust may thus be subject to regulation. An international scientific workshop was
convened in Paris in September 2019 to assess the relevance for public health of setting guidelines for
indoor settled dust, and secondly to discuss scientific and technical challenges related to such
guidelines. The main discussions and conclusions, with consensus achieved, are reported herein.
Discussions concerned general considerations, objectives and definitions, relevance for a health-based
guideline, units of measure, and finally derivation of the guideline. These points should be addressed
when considering an indoor settled dust guideline as part of a policy to reduce exposure indoors to a
given chemical or group of chemicals.
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