STYRENE & CHILDREN'S HEALTH
SIRC commissioned Sciences International (SI) of Alexandria, Va., to perform a screening-level risk assessment to determine the potential health impact of children's indoor exposure associated with styrene. This report addressed exposure associated with styrenic-based toys, other styrenic-based materials found indoors, in food, and in indoor air. SI reviewed available literature on styrene monomer migration from plastic materials, children's mouthing behavior, styrene naturally occurring in food, and styrene measurements in indoor air. They considered the following exposure pathways: (a) ingestion of styrene from mouthing of toys, (b) ingestion of styrene from mouthing of other styrenic-based objects, (c) ingestion of styrene in food due to migration from food-contact articles, (d) ingestion of naturally occurring styrene in food, and (e) inhalation of styrene in indoor air. Additionally, SI conducted an aggregate assessment combining all of these pathways to consider the total styrene ingestion exposure. The conclusion of this conservative, screening-level risk assessment is that styrene monomer exposures to children are very low and are well below levels of public health concern.
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