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90 13 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Ignoring the potential risk of neurotoxicity and potential resultant mortality from exposure to t...
90 22 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA The statement about the use of mercury cell technology should be highlighted in the executive sum...
90 9-12 Arthur E. Dungan Chlorine Institute We discuss this statement in the above comments which we are repeating below: The data cited r...
90 19-22 Arthur E. Dungan Chlorine Institute We discuss this statement in the above comments which we are repeating below: Mercury exposure...
90 22-24 Arthur E. Dungan Chlorine Institute We strongly dispute the statement that “...the continued use of mercury cell technology for chlor...
90 43-44 Marian Stanley American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel The Panel agrees that the available data do not indicate that DEHP is estrogenic. In addition to...
90 9-24 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute It is important to understand that one of the reasons mercury cell technology evolved was that it...
90 9-12 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The PVC Task Group states “Given that it is known that the U.S. chloralkali plants have recently ...
91 Jack Geibig Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee		 The exposure assessment does not take into account ingestion of DEHP or any other route of exposu...
91 9-16 Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates It should be added that the EU Risk Assessment of DEHP acknowledges that this NOAEL of 4.8 mg/kg ...
9-10 20-41,1-19 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy The “Additional Analyses” section should be deleted from the report entirely. The air monitoring...
92 4 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center See comments above. This Rais-Bahrami study is extremely limited because of its lack of exposure...
92 23 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Although additional studies are necessary to fully understand species differences in tissue sensi...
92 26-34 Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates This may be misleading with regard to DBP exposure because it is based on early CDC biomonitoring...
93 40 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center It appears that the risk assessment and LCA failed to include any consideration of the potential ...
93 25+ Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates It would be appropriate to insert here a further fundamental concern regarding the Bornehag et al...
93 26-43 Marian Stanley American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel Additional studies are available, which indicate it is highly unlikely that phthalates cause or e...
94 3 Jonathan Herz General Services Administration The whole Data Gap discussion suggests that answering the original question is not prudent or wis...
94 32 Michelle Halle Stern Delta Institute What is the scientific basis for assuming that manufacturers try to meet TLVs?
94 12 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA I do not understand the statement that “lack of more accurate data does not negate the findings o...
94 19-20 Mike Kolosseus North American Pipe Corporation (Westlake Chemical) North American Pipe Corp. tests for the exposure to additive dust if the additive is considered h...
94 12 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network “Lack of more accurate data does not negate the findings or lessen their significance.” This is o...
94 24 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "(PELs) can result in very high estimates of risk." This artifact could help explain th...
95 26 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "TRI and Air Data, which are plant or industry-specific, are not usually adequate for proces...
95 31 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "SimaPro mainly contains data from the European sources (APME…" These are the databases...
96 William Carroll OxyChem Because of the diversity of the materials summarized in the category “dioxins” any further refine...
96 3 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Data Gaps in emissions data" Each issue may contain order of magnitude uncertainties r...
97 7 Erik Jansson Department of the Planet Earth We find the specific overall conclusion of the report to be substantially in factual error (i.e. ...
97 34-39 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group correctly notes that “non-PVC building materials are under-represented in the data...
97 9 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "For the exposure estimates, intake fractions … were used" This is another case of aver...
97 21 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Intake fractions for metals have not been evaluated. Therefore this report's analysis ...
98 7 Vernon Abelsen SMR Architects I think this report does the environment, and the people who inhabit this planet, a disservice by...
98 6 Jonathan Herz General Services Administration The conclusion that PVC is no worse than any other building product is not reassuring, nor is it ...
98 8 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network The available evidence that actually survived the exclusionary filters of this tool does support ...
99 11 Michelle Halle Stern Delta Institute If the LSC follows your recommendation to combine LCA and Risk Assessment for every credit, it is...
99 9 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 I feel that the USGBC should begin drafting a credit for the reduction/elimination of PVC buildi...
Appendix B David Yopak Teknor Apex Company We recognize that LCA is sometimes criticized for failing to adequately consider human health ris...
GENERAL COMMENTS AS WELL AS COMMENTS TO PAGE 41 GENERAL COMMENTS AS WELL AS COMMENTS TO PAGES 7-8 AND PAGES 27-32 Philipp Leferenz Freudenberg Building Systems, Inc. Dear Task Group, On February 17, 2004 Freudenberg Building Systems, Inc., nora® Rubber Flo...
Overall and p42 1-5 Kenneth Abate VEKA Incorporated To: U. S. Green Building Council PVC Task Group From: Kenneth Abate, Ph.D. Subject: Commen...
Risk Spreadsheets Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The spreadsheets include notes for errors that were found after the report’s release such as “NOT...