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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... log 10 of Trichloroethylene vapor pressure. Uses formula: ...
OEHHA's research was critical in passing legislation to ban toxic phthalates from children's toys in California. OEHHA was the first agency to identify second-hand tobacco smoke as a causal factor in breast cancer in young women. California's ban on two widely used toxic flame retardants was supported by OEHHA's research. The California ban led ...
Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a halocarbon with the formula C 2 HCl 3, commonly used as an industrial metal degreasing solvent. It is a clear, colourless, non-flammable, volatile liquid with a chloroform-like pleasant mild smell [3] and sweet taste. [9] Its IUPAC name is trichloroethene. Trichloroethylene has been sold under a variety of trade names.
The chemicals — trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene (PCE or perc) — can cause multiple kinds of cancers and damage to the kidney, liver and immune and nervous systems at high exposure ...
The agency said it would allow lab use and proper disposal of TCE wastewater to continue for 50 years, assuming those protections are in place including a new inhalation exposure limit that is ...
The ban involves trichloroethylene, or TCE, a cancer-causing chemical that is common in manufacturing and can be found in water sources and properties around the world, as well as all consumer ...
Legislation could force the EPA to establish a health advisory and a national public drinking water regulation to limit trichloroethylene. [9] The 1998 film A Civil Action dramatizes the EPA lawsuit Anne Anderson, et al., v. Cryovac, Inc. concerning trichloroethylene contamination that occurred in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1970s and 1980s.
An occupational exposure limit is an upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a hazardous substance in workplace air for a particular material or class of materials. It is typically set by competent national authorities and enforced by legislation to protect occupational safety and health .