Researchers from the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute of New Jersey have found that gasoline blended with 15 percent MTBE caused adverse symptoms in individuals sensitive to the additive. The study was performed under controlled laboratory conditions using MTBE exposures routinely experienced at gasoline stations, with neither the subjects nor the experimenters aware of the gasoline mixture they were exposed to during the experiments.
The study was funded by ARCO Chemical and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The Institute is a joint program of Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
