A Recommendation for a United Kingdom Air Quality Standard for Benzene

Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards

The Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (EPAQS) was set up by the Secretary of State for the Environment in 1991 following the undertaking, in the Environment White Paper 'This Common Inheritance' published in September 1990, to establish an expert panel to advise the Government on air quality standards. The terms of reference of the Panel are:

'To advise, as required, on the establishment and application of air quality standards in the United Kingdom, for purposes of developing policy on air pollution control and increasing public knowledge and understanding of air quality, taking account of the best available evidence of the effects of air pollution on human health and the wider environment, and of the progressive development of the air quality monitoring network.'

This report is one in a series which will deal with pollutants suggested to the Panel by the Department of the Environment. Reports will be made on individual pollutants except where the Panel decide to deal with more than one because of the relationships between pollutants.

MEMBERSHIP OF THE PANEL

Chairman

Professor A Seaton MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FFOM
University of Aberdeen Medical School

Members

Dr R Agius MD, FRCPE, FFOM
Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Dr P J Baxter MD, MSc, FRCP, FFOM
University of Cambridge

Professor P G J Burney MA, MD, FFPHM
United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London

Dr R L Carter MA, DM, DSc, FRCPath
Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey

Dr R G Derwent MA, PhD
Meteorological Office

Mr J Dodgson BSc, FIOH
Consultant, Edinburgh

Professor R M Harrison PhD, DSc, FRSC, FRMetS, FRSH
University of Birmingham

Professor S T Holgate MD, DSc, FRCP
Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital

Prof A J Newman Taylor OBE, FRCP, FFOM
National Heart and Lung Institute, London

Mr R E Waller BSc (from 1993)
Consultant, London

Observers

Dr P Harrison PhD, CBiol, MIBiol
Department of the Environment

Dr M Topping PhD
Health and Safety Executive

Dr A Wadge PhD, CBiol, MIBiol
Department of Health

Dr M L Williams PhD
Department of the Environment

Secretariat

Mr S M Bland
Department of the Environment

Dr P Mallaburn PhD (to 1993). Dr S M Coster PhD (from 1993)
Department of the Environment

Dr R L Maynard MB, BCh, MRCPath, FIBiol
Department of Health

Mrs K M Cameron MSc (to 1993). Dr J B Greig MA, DPhil (from 1993)
Department of Health