Boreiko and Rossman review occupational and experimental evidence on antimony and the lung, cancer, and genotoxicity. The article is an invited review under a CC BY license. It is not a new measurement of antimony in food, polyester, or a consumer product.
Key numbers
The review states that occupational inhalation exposure should not exceed 0.5 mg/m3, and it refers to modern occupational exposure limits of 0.5 mg/m3 for inhalable antimony trioxide. The narrative ties that figure to the 1979 ACGIH limit. The ACGIH document is not in this file, so the 0.5 mg/m3 value is entered as a cited occupational limit, not as a new determination.
Gastrointestinal uptake below 1 percent is attributed to ATSDR, not measured here, and is not entered as a finding of this review. Inhalation doses from the National Toxicology Program and from other animal bioassays are primary-study numbers. They are not re-extracted through this review.
Methods (brief)
Narrative review of human occupational evidence and of experimental pulmonary and genotoxicity studies. No new analytical method is reported.
Evidence fitness
The page supports the occupational inhalation figure as the review states it, with the citation limit above. It does not support a concentration in a textile or a food, and it does not replace the primary bioassay papers.
Limitations
A review’s restatement of an occupational limit is only as strong as the instrument it cites. That instrument was not read in this file. Doses that belong to primary studies stay with those studies.
Related evidence
- Antimony
- An assessment of the genetic toxicology of antimony trioxide
- Trace elements in skin-contact clothes and migration to artificial sweat: Risk assessment of human dermal exposure
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