August 11, 2015 at 12:12 PM
The first draft report from the panel of science advisors peer reviewing the Environmental Protection Agency's draft assessment of the human health risks of the petroleum chemical benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) generally concurs with many of the agency's conclusions about the hazards the chemical poses, but is critical of most of the risk estimates EPA has calculated, and urging a closer look at evidence of skin cancer in studies of numerous workers.