Open AccessOccupational exposure to antimony trioxide: a risk assessment
Author(s) -
Samantha Schildroth,
Gwendolyn Osborne,
Anna Smith,
Caryn Yip,
Caroline Collins,
Martyn T. Smith,
Martha S. Sandy,
Luoping Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.458
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1470-7926
pISSN - 1351-0711
DOI - 10.1136/oemed-2020-106980
Subject(s) - antimony trioxide , carcinogen , environmental health , medicine , inhalation , inhalation exposure , risk assessment , occupational exposure , cancer , toxicology , antimony , chemistry , biology , computer science , anesthesia , computer security , organic chemistry , fire retardant , inorganic chemistry
The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) recently recommended in its Report on Carcinogens Monograph for Antimony Trioxide that antimony trioxide be listed as ' reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen ' based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and supporting evidence from mechanistic studies. Our goal was to estimate the possible human cancer risk from occupational exposure to antimony trioxide.