Organisé par the US Environmental Protection Agency
In February 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), launched a multi-agency research effort to address public concerns about exposures of athletes to tire crumb. The effort is known as the Federal Research Action Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds (FRAP). The FRAP focused on assessing potential human exposure, which includes both what chemicals are in the material and in what amounts, and identifying the ways in which people may be exposed to those chemicals based on their activities on synthetic turf fields.
In 2019, EPA and ATSDR released the Tire Crumb Rubber Characterization (Part 1) Report. This webinar, co-presented by EPA and ATSDR, will focus on the Tire Crumb Exposure Characterization (Part 2), which completes the EPA/ATSDR work with respect to playing fields. The presentation will cover the various activities associated with this report, which were a pilot-scale exposure study including collection of field, personal, and biomarker samples for indicators of exposures; questionnaire and video-based activity assessments; exposure modeling assessments; and a supplemental biomonitoring study completed by ATSDR.
The results from this effort will be useful to the public and interested stakeholders for understanding the potential for human exposure to chemicals found in tire crumb rubber used on synthetic turf fields.