Diesel engine exhaust

CASRN NA | DTXSID1024043

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Not assessed under the IRIS Program.

System	RfC (mg/m³)	Basis	PoD	Composite UF	Confidence
Respiratory	5 x 10 ^-3	Pulmonary inflammation and histopathology	NOAEL (HEC): 0.144 mg/m³	30	Medium

Weight of Evidence for Cancer (PDF) (36 pp, 297 K) Last Updated: 02/28/2003

WOE Characterization	Framework for WOE Characterization
Likely to be carcinogenic to humans	Revised Draft Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment (U.S. EPA, 1999)

Basis:

Using U.S. EPA's revised draft 1999 Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment (U.S. EPA, 1999), diesel exhaust (DE) is likely to be carcinogenic to humans by inhalation from environmental exposures.
This may be a synopsis of the full weight-of-evidence narrative.

Not assessed under the IRIS Program.

Not assessed under the IRIS Program.

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