Consumer product standards scientific issues

Many national standards for consumer products other than food have been based on limiting exposure to carcinogens. However, product standards have rarely utilized a specific cancer risk level, and thus there appear to be few scientific issues unique to development of product standards based on cancer. The major consideration would be the difficulty in arriving at accurate population-based exposure estimates for cancer risk from products but since specific cancer risks are not generally utilized, this point may be moot. 

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