The chromium industry held back human-health data that the federal government used to set new work-place exposure limits that are due to go into law next week, according to a study released Thursday.
The metals industry submitted incomplete data last year on the links between hexavalent chromium and lung cancer, researchers at George Washington University and assisted by Public Citizen concluded in their report. The paper was published in Environmental Health.
Hexavalent chromium is used in chrome plating, stainless steel welding and the production of chromate pigments and dyes. Welders, s...
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