WASHINGTON -- The Inter-Industry Wood Dust Coordinating Committee (IWDCC) is urging the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) to restore wood dust to its Under Study List.

Written comments will be submitted this week by the Inter-Industry Wood Dust Coordinating Committee in response to the proposed lowering of the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for wood dust in California. Cal/OSHA has proposed lowering the state’s wood dust permissible exposure limits from 5 mg/m3 total dust to a PEL of 1 mg/m3 inhalable dust.