Report on Tentative Ambient Air Standards for Sulfur Dioxide and Sulfuric Acid

This report was prepared in September 1959 at the request of the State of California Department of Public Health for their use in connection with the establishment of Standards of Ambient Air Quality for their state and is published with their kind permission. The full responsibility for the personal opinions thus expressed rests with the author. The first section presents ten statements about the toxicology of sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. Following each statement is a discussion of the literature which has led the author to reach such a conclusion. The second section presents some values for tentative air standards which were intended as a starting point for consideration and review by the committees concerned.