A Recommendation for a United Kingdom Air Quality Standard for Particles

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 deals 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 J G Ayres BSc, MD, FRCP
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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

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

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

Mr J W Cherrie BSc, 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

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

Dr R G Derwent MA, PhD
Meteorological Office

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

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

Mr R E Waller BSc
Consultant, London

Observers

Dr S Bristow PhD (to 1995)
Dr T L Ogden PhD (from 1995)
Health and Safety Executive

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

Mrs A L McDonald BSc,
MSc Department of Health

Secretariat

Dr M L Williams PhD
Department of the Environment

Dr S M Coster PhD
Department of the Environment

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

Dr J B Greig MA, DPhil
Department of Health

Ms C J Hartley BSc, PGDlpLIS
Department of Health