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Introduction
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... Regulatory activin', has focused on outdoor air pollution, but children and adults ~ the United States and other developed countries spend most of their time indoors (National Research Council, 1991) and personal exposures to many ~ pollutants are thus determined largely by indoor pollutant concentrations.
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... At the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Research County conducted a workshop to develop a research agenda to study the phenomenon of multiple chemical sensitivity. The workshop was convened with the overall objective of addressing the gaps in the scient6fic evidence on multiple chemical sensitivity.
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... The second group also proposed the use of controlled exposures of subjects in whom multiple chemical sensitive s diagnosed and of control subjects. This group advocated the formulation of animal models, the investigation of tissues, and the development of a data base of chemicals, foods, and ~ reported to be associated with multiple chemical sensitivity.
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... 321 pp. ARC (National Research Council)


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