PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LEVELS FOR SELECTED MILITARY FUEL VAPORS

Abstract

The following is a summary of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences report entitled Permissible Exposure Levels for Selected Military Fuel Vapors. That report was prepared in response to a request from the U.S. Navy to review the toxicity data on two jet-propulsion (JP) fuels JP-5 and JP-8 and diesel fuel marine (DFM), and determine the scientific validity of the Navy's proposed 8-h permissible exposure limits (PELs) and 15- min short-term exposure limits (STELs) for all three fuels. The report was prepared by the National Research Council Subcommittee on Permissible Exposure Levels for Military Fuels. The roster of the subcommittee is as follows. SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LEVELS FOR MILITARY FUELS Rogene F. Henderson (Chair), Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA Dean E. Carter, University of Arizona, College of Pharmacy, Tucson, AZ, USA Charles E. Feigley, University of South Carolina, School of Public Health, Columbia, SC, USA Nathan J. Karch, Karch & Associates, Inc., Washington, DC, USA Michele A. Medinsky, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Florabel G. Mullick, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA Robert Snyder, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ, USA Hanspeter R. Witschi, University of California, Davis, CA, USA The National Research Council Project Director for this study is Kulbir S. Bakshi. Copies of the report can be obtained by contacting the National Academy Press at the following address: National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Box 285, Washington, DC 20055, USA. Telephone: [phone] or [phone] (in the Washington Metropolitan Area). Website: http://www.nap.edu.