Indoor settled dust may result in substantial human exposure to chemicals, especially by ingestion following hand‐to‐mouth or hand‐to‐object‐to‐mouth contact. As with other environmental media related to exposure, dust may thus be subject to regulation. An international scientific workshop was convened in Paris in September 2019 firstly to assess the relevance for public health of setting guidelines for indoor settled dust, and secondly to discuss scientific and technical challenges related to such guidelines. The main discussions and conclusions, with consensus achieved, are reported herein. Discussions concerned general considerations, objectives and definitions, relevance for a health‐based guideline, units of measure, and finally derivation of the guideline. These points should be addressed when considering an indoor settled dust guideline as part of a policy to reduce exposure indoors to a given chemical or group of chemicals.

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制定室内沉降粉尘中化学品的公共卫生指南？

室内沉降的灰尘可能导致人类大量接触化学品，尤其是通过手对口或手对物与嘴接触后摄入。与其他与暴露有关的环境介质一样，灰尘可能因此受到监管。2019 年 9 月在巴黎召开了一次国际科学研讨会，首先评估制定室内沉降粉尘指南与公共卫生的相关性，其次讨论与此类指南相关的科学和技术挑战。本文报告了达成共识的主要讨论和结论。讨论涉及一般考虑、目标和定义、与健康指南的相关性、测量单位以及指南的最终推导。