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Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Selected science: an industry campaign to undermine an OSHA hexavalent chromium standard 1 1 1,2 David Michaels* , Celeste Monforton and Peter Lurie 1 Address: The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 2100 M Street NW, Suite 203, Washington, DC, 20037, USA and 2Public Citizen Health Research Group, 1600 20th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009, USA Email: David Michaels* - eohdmm@; Celeste Monforton - eohcnm@; Peter Lurie - plurie@ * Corresponding author Published: 23 February 2006 Received: 10 November 2005 Accepted: 23 February 2006 Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:5 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-5- 5 This article is available from: /content/5/1/5 © 2006 Michaels et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract While exposure to hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) has been associated with increased lung cancer risk for more than 50 years, the chemical is not currently regulated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and