Assessment of Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Risks to the General Population That Resulted from the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers
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- Matthew Lorber
- by phone at: 703-347-8535
- by email at: lorber.matthew@epa.gov
- by email at: lorber.matthew@epa.gov
- Persons exposed to extremely high levels of ambient PM and its components, SVFs, and other contaminants during the collapse of the WTC towers, and for several hours afterward, were likely to be at risk for acute and potentially chronic respiratory effects.
- Available data suggest that contaminant concentrations within and near ground zero (GZ) remained significantly elevated above background levels for a few days after 9/11. Because only limited data on these critical few days were available, exposures and potential health impacts could not be evaluated with certainty for this time period.
- Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11 and a few days afterward, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short-term or long-term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures.
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- Assessment of Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Risks to the General Population That Resulted from the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers (PDF) (19 pp, 425 KB, about PDF)
- J.1539-6924.2007.00956.x
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Citation
U.S. EPA. Assessment of Inhalation Exposures and Potential Health Risks to the General Population That Resulted from the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. Matthew Lorber, Herman Gibb, Lester Grant, Joseph Pinto, Joachim Pleil, David Cleverly (ed.), RISK ANALYSIS. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 27(5):1203-1221, (2007).