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Title Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals. Volume 12 / Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
Contents National Research Council Committee Review of Acute Exposure Guideline Levels of Selected Airborne Chemicals -- Appendixes -- Butane -- Chloroacetaldehyde -- Chlorobenzene -- Chloroform -- Methyl Bromide -- Methyl Chloride -- Propane
Summary "Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs. Workers and residents in communities surrounding industrial facilities where EHSs are manufactured, used, or stored and in communities along the nation's railways and highways are potentially at risk of being exposed to airborne EHSs during accidental releases or intentional releases by terrorists. Using the 1993 and 2001 NRC guidelines reports, the National Advisory Committee - consisting of members from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, other federal and state governments, the chemical industry, academia, and other organizations form the private sector has developed Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGL) for more than 270 EHSs. In 1998, the EPA and DOD requested that the NRC independently reviewed the AEGLs developed by the NAC. In response to that request, the NRC organized within its Committee on Toxicology the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, which prepared this report, Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 12. This report explains the scientifically valid conclusions that are based on the data reviewed by NAC and consistent with the NRC guideline reports and provides comments and recommendations for how AEGL could be improved."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.
Environmental Exposure -- standards
Hazardous Substances -- standards
Air Pollutants -- standards
Hazardous Substances -- toxicity
MEDICAL -- Toxicology.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels.
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicology.
National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies.
ISBN 9780309255028
0309255023
1280676353
9781280676352
9786613653284
6613653284