4. Our advice
4.1 Pay special attention to VTRs
VTRs must protect the population from health risks resulting from accidental or fugitive emissions of chemicals. In the absence of VTRs defined in a country, the most relevant VTRs based on potential exposure risks, as defined by other international agencies, must be applied.
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ANSES - REPORT, Guide to developing VTRs: criteria and methods (2010).
ECETOC - ECETOC Technical Report 43 Emergency Exposure Indices for Industrial Chemicals (1991).
ECETOC - Technical Report 87, Evaluation of existing Methodologies for setting Acute Exposure Threshold Levels to Derive an European AETL Methodology (2006).
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