本指導文件提出了人類健康和環(huán)境危害評估國際海運煤炭中的煤炭方法防止船舶和國際海事污染公約固體散裝貨物代碼（IMSBC）。對于人類健康分類，由于復雜的成分對于煤，混合方法被認為是不可行的。因此，煤的整體測試數(shù)據(jù)作為人類健康分類的基礎?；诂F(xiàn)有文獻綜述研究煤對哺乳動物的不良影響，得出結(jié)論：吸入相關暴露途徑（吸入煤塵）-這不是MARPOL標準，但與IMSBC規(guī)范標準相關。環(huán)境危害對煤的評價僅僅是基于煤的微量元素組成。評估確實不評價有毒有機化合物如多環(huán)芳烴的潛在危害碳氫化合物（PAHs）；先前對煤中報告的PAHs含量進行的危害評估表明，報告的最高濃度水平的PAHs不會觸發(fā)任何環(huán)境分類。此外，產(chǎn)生的生態(tài)毒理學數(shù)據(jù)以煤為供試品，并沒有表明煤的有機部分會引起不良反應嚴重到足以觸發(fā)環(huán)境分類的急性/慢性影響。

This guidance document proposes a human health and environmental hazard assessment  methodology for coal with regard to the marine transport of coal under the International  Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) and the International Maritime  Solid Bulk Cargoes Code (IMSBC). For human health classification, due to the complex composition  of coal, a mixture approach was not considered feasible. Consequently, test data on coal as a whole  serve as basis for the human health classification. Based on the literature review of available  studies on adverse effects of coal on mammals, it was concluded that inhalation was the only  relevant route of exposure (coal dust inhalation) - which is not a relevant route of exposure for the  MARPOL criteria but is relevant for the IMSBC Code criteria. The environmental hazard  assessment of coal is solely based on the trace element composition of coal. The assessment does  not evaluate potential hazard of toxic organic compounds such as polycyclic aromatic  hydrocarbons (PAHs); the hazard assessment that was previously conducted on reported PAHlevels in coal demonstrated that the highest reported concentration levels of PAHs would not  trigger any environmental classification. In addition, ecotoxicological data that were generated  with coal as test substance did not indicate that the organic fraction of coal would cause adverse  acute/chronic effects that are severe enough to trigger an environmental classification.