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| Type |
Symposium |
| Area |
Research Trends in Emerging Contaminants |
| Room No. |
Room 203 |
| Time |
THU 16:10-16:40 |
| Code |
ENVR-2 |
| Subject |
Risks from biocidal active ingredients in consumer products |
| Authors |
Jung-Hwan Kwon
Div of Environ Sci & Ecol Engr, Korea University, Korea |
| Abstract |
Humidifier disinfectant disaster in 2011 invoked the importance of safe management of chemicals in consumer products. Biocidal active ingedients are being added to many chemical products used in our daily lives for various purposes. Although the new regulation on these chemicals (Act on the safe management of consumer chemical products and biocides) has been enacted this year in Korea, the scientific decision support systems needs to be refined during the grace period of the law. In this overview presentation, schemes of the risk and safety assessment methodology used for scientific decision of those products in regulatory context are introduced with an emphasis on biocidal products. Scientific decision support system in general benchmarks systems developed in US and Europe. However, it is of urgent needs to refine inhalation risk assessment methodology for various consumer products because inhalation dosimetry and exposure assessment models used in other countries are also based on very limited amount of experimental evidences. |
| E-mail |
junghwankwon@korea.ac.kr |
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123rd General Meeting of the KCS