Review of the Air Quality Criteria Document for Particulate Matter
Review of the Air Quality Criteria Document for Particulate Matter
Review of the Air Quality Criteria Document for Particulate Matter
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9-27 17 insert "source and/or" after "each".9-27 27 change "several" to "many (~16)".9-28 15 change "lower" to "smaller".9-28 22 insert "directly proportional to <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> charges"be<strong>for</strong>e "inversely".9-28 23 change "likely" to "generally".9-30 5 change "and through segmental bronchi" to ", bronchi andbronchioles". There are "hot spots" on deposition onbifurcations at all branching levels, as I noted in my review<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Dosimetry chapter.9-30 8-10 This statement is flat-out wrong, and needs to bereconsidered. Deposition peaks in <strong>the</strong> segmental bronchi.9-32 29 "mucociliary" is misspelled.9-33 24 change "(< 24 h)" to "(< 10 days)". The clearance viaalveolar macrophages is minimal during <strong>the</strong> first 24 hours.9-33 26 insert "moderately" be<strong>for</strong>e "soluble". Highly solublematerials do not retain <strong>the</strong>ir particulate <strong>for</strong>m long enough tobe translocated.9-35 11 change "particles" to "deposits".9-39 15 <strong>for</strong> consistency, insert "(SOx)" after "sulfur oxides", "(NOx)"after "nitrogen oxides", and "(O3)" after "ozone".9-66 26 The "McConnell et al" reference is to one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> papers from<strong>the</strong> CARB sponsored children's health study at USC. Thereference here should be to a paper by McDonnell et al on<strong>the</strong> AHSMOG data.9-69 Figure 9-9 There is no translation given <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> "HF" and "1 HD"caption designations in <strong>the</strong> figure. They refer to congestive heartfailure and ischemic heart disease respectively. This also appliesto Figure 6-6.9-74 Figure 9-10 The hospital admissions data <strong>for</strong> Detroit reported byLippmann et al. (2000) should be included in this summarypresentation data. This also applies to Figure 6-7.9-79 and Section 9.6.2.3.3 This section is incomplete without discussion <strong>of</strong> a recentseries <strong>of</strong> important papers from <strong>the</strong> Children's HealthStudy in Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. In particular, discussionneeds to be added <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> following:9-80 A. Papers that were cited in Chapter 6: 1) McConnell et al.,EHP, 1999; 2) Peters, J.M. et al., Am. J. Resp. Crit. CareMed., 1999b and c; 3) Gauderman et al., Am. J. Resp. Crit. CareA - 46