Industrial Hygiene Group Backs NIOSH’s Approach To Nanomaterial Limits

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) recent draft guidance on how to craft workplace exposure limits for novel nanomaterials despite a lack of substance-specific health data is drawing support from a professional association of industrial hygienists, likely bolstering the guide’s path to competition. The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) writes in newly released comments that NIOSH’s draft “provide[s] a useful and pragmatic approach” for setting workplace exposure limits on engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) that often have little available...