Book Description
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Office
of Water (OW) initiated the Health Advisory Program in 1978 to provide
information and guidance to individuals or agencies concerned with potential
risk from drinking water contaminants for which no national regulations
currently exist. Since that time, over 100 Health Advisories (HAs) have been
published in final form for inorganic, organic, and microbial contaminants. This
volume contains HAs for munitions chemicals developed as part of a Memorandum of
Understanding between the U.S. EPA and the Department of the Army.To develop
each HA, the authors reviewed toxicological data for each chemical and presented
the relevant studies to allow an evaluation of the data without continued
reference to the primary documents. Each HA has undergone critical internal
review by the OW Toxicology Review Panel, EPA program offices, the EPA Reference
Dose (RfD) Committee, the EPA Carcinogen Risk Assessment and Verification
Enterprise (CRAVE) Committee, and the Army Medical Department (for munitions
chemicals only). Finally, the HAs were reviewed by an external panel of experts
in toxicology and risk assessments.Drinking Water Health Advisory: Munitions
will be an important reference document for all DOD/DOE hazardous waste sites,
drinking water professionals, and academic libraries.
Product Details
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: CRC (June 16, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0873717546
ISBN-13: 978-0873717540
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.8 x 9.8 inches
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