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It has been accepted in many countries that the regulation of ambient air quality should involve the use of health-based air quality standards. Setting standards for air pollutants which are genotoxic carcinogens presents difficult problems to the regulator, in that the prediction of the effects on health of low levels of exposure is suspected to be inaccurate, and is not currently amenable to either...