Particulate Air Pollution Standards and Morbidity and Mortality: Case Study

Daniel S. Greenbaum1, John D. Bachmann2, Daniel Krewski3, Jonathan M. Samet4, Ronald White5 and Ronald E. Wyzga6

1 Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, MA.
2 Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC.
3 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
4 Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
5 American Lung Association, Washington, DC.
6 The Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.

Abbreviations: CASAC, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; EPA, US Environmental Protection Agency; PM10, standard for coarse particulate matter; PM2.5, standard for fine particulate matter

NOTES

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Received for publication May 23, 2001. Accepted for publication August 30, 2001.