Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's draft IRIS assessment of tetrachloroethylene /

"Tetrachloroethylene is a volatile, chlorinated organic hydrocarbon that is widely used as a solvent in the dry-cleaning and textile-processing industries and as an agent for degreasing metal parts. It is an environmental contaminant that has been detected in the air, groundwater, surface water...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review EPA's Toxicological Assessment of Tetrachloroethylene, United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010.
Colección:Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Temas:
Tetrachloroethylene > Risk assessment.
Tetrachloroethylene > Toxicology.
Risk assessment.
Tetrachloroethylene > toxicity
Environmental Exposure
Risk Assessment
Tétrachloroéthylène > Évaluation du risque.
Tétrachloroéthylène > Toxicologie.
Exposition (Toxicologie)
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Risk assessment
Tetrachloroethylene > Toxicology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the toxicokinetics of tetrachloroethylene
  • Neurotoxicity
  • Reproductive and developmental effects
  • Genotoxicity
  • Hepatic toxicity and cancer
  • Renal toxicity and cancer
  • Hematopoietic effects
  • General review of epidemiologic evidence pertaining to cancer
  • Reference values for tetrachloroethylene
  • Cancer risk estimates for tetrachloroethylene
  • Moving beyond the current state of practice.

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