NAS To Review New DOD Approach For Setting Workplace TCE Standard

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) gearing up to peer-review the Defense Department’s (DOD) revised approach to developing a standard for workplace exposures to trichloroethylene (TCE), marking the latest step in DOD’s long-running struggle to reconcile EPA and OSHA’s drastically different findings on the solvent. NAS on June 22 set a July 16 deadline for nominations to a committee that will review DOD’s revised approach to developing a TCE standard for occupational exposures -- the department’s second attempt at that...