A Recommendation for a United Kingdom Air Quality Standard for Lead

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 progressive development of the air quality monitoring network.'

This report is one in a series which deals with pollutants suggested to the Panel by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. 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 CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FFOM
University ofAberdeen Medical School

Members

Professor J G Ayres BSc, MD, FRCP, FRSA
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and University of Warwick

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

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

Professor R L Carter CBE, MA, DM, DSc, FRCPath, FFPM
Royal Marsden Hospital and University of Surrey

Dr J W Cherrie PhD, FIOH
University of Aberdeen and Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh

Dr A E Cockcroft MD, FRCP, DIH, FFOM
Occupational Health and Safety Unit, The Royal Free Hospital, London

Professor D N M Coggon MA, PhD, DM, FRCP, FFOM MRC
Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton

Dr R G Denvent MA, PhD
Meteorological Office

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

Observers

Dr H Jackson PhD
Health and Safety Executive

Dr P T C Harrison PhD, CBiol, MIBiol
Institute for Environment and Health, Leicester

Dr H Walton PhD
Department of Health

Mrs K Cameron MSc (until June 1997)
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Dr L Smith PhD (from June 1997)
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Secretariat

Dr M L Williams PhD
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

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

Dr S M Coster PhD
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Miss J Dixon MSe (untilAugust 1997)
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Dr P R S Green PhD (from August 1997)
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Dr J B Greig MA, DPhil (until January 1997)
Department of Health