Trichloroethylene: A Risk Factor for Cancer?
US EPA has been working on a risk assessment of trichloroethylene (TCE) for some time now. Here’s a link to the EPA Issue Papers through 2005. Now a comprehensive review of the issues has been published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology. The article is entitled “Trichloroethylene risk assessment: A review and commentary” and it provides an excellent overview of the developing molecular biological and molecular epidemiological approach to causal attribution and risk; one we’re sure to see increasingly in asbestos, benzene and other mass tort litigation.
