2-Nitronaphthalene; Health-based calculated occupational cancer risk values

On request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Standards (DECOS), a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands, estimates the additional cancer risk associated with occupational exposure to substances that have been classified by the European Union or the DECOS as genotoxic carcinogen. In this report the committee presents such estimates for 2-nitronaphthalene. This carcinogen is a nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (nitroPAH) that is formed by incomplete combustion of organic material. For the estimation, the committee used the method described in the report ‘Calculating cancer risk due to occupational exposure to genotoxic carcinogens’ (Hea95).

The committee is of the opinion that due to insufficient data it is not possible to estimate the additional lifetime cancer risk for 2-nitronaphthalene.