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Is further research needed?
Further testing to adequately characterise the toxicity
of DBP
in air to plants concluded that there is further need for risk
reduction beyond those which are currently applied. Therefore, atmosphere
releases of DBP by production sites should be reduced in order to
protect plants.
For effects on the aquatic compartment (including
sediment), soil and the food chain, there is at present no need
for further information or testing or risk reduction measures beyond
those which are being applied already.
For workers, due to concerns about the effects of
repeated dermal
exposure from “aerosol
forming activities” and concerns for adverse local effects
in the respiratory
tract as a consequence of repeated inhalation
exposure in all workplace exposure scenarios, there is a need for
limiting the risks. It is possible that in some industrial premises
adequate worker protection measures are already being applied.
For consumers, the end products containing DBP
and the sources of exposure
are unlikely to pose a risk
for consumers (adults, infants and new-borns) following inhalation,
skin contact and ingestion.
The indirect exposure via the environment is unlikely to pose a
risk to humans following the main route of exposure, the oral route.
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