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Main Title Health assessment document for dichloromethane (methylene chloride).
Author Bayard, S. P. ; Bayliss, D. L. ; Davidson, I. W. F. ; Fowle, III, J. R. ; Greenberg, M.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of Health and Environmental Assessment.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessement Office,
Year Published 1983
Report Number EPA-600/8-82-004B
Stock Number PB84-162643
OCLC Number 54763263
Additional Subjects Public health ; Toxicology ; Assessments ; Chloromethanes ; Urban areas ; Physical properties ; Chemical properties ; Transport properties ; Exposure ; Ecology ; Regulations ; Metabolism ; Air pollution ; Water pollution ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Laboratory animals ; Environmental impacts ; Mutagens ; Malignant neoplasms ; Methane/dichloro ; Air pollution effects(Humans) ; Water pollution effects(Humans) ; Toxic substances ; Path of pollutants ; Pharmacokinetics ; Cancer
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EKBD  EPA-600/8-82-004B Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 03/19/2004
ESAD  EPA 600-8-82-004B Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 07/29/2005
NTIS  PB84-162643 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., charts ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Dichloromethane (DCM) is a solvent widely used for a variety of purposes. It has been detected in the ambient air of urban and non-urban areas of the United States and also in natural and municipal waters. The weight of available evidence indicates that adverse toxicologic effects (other than carcinogenicity and mutagenicity) in humans are unlikely to occur at ambient air and water levels found or expected in the general environment. Available evidence suggests that the teratogenic potential of DCM is capable of causing gene mutations and has the potential to cause such effects in exposed human cells. The weight of evidence for carcinogenicity in animals is limited, according to the criteria of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). However, when the absence of epidemiological evidence is considered, the overall evaluation of DCM, according to IARC criteria, is that it is a Group 3 chemical in that it cannot be classified as to its carcinogenic potential for humans.
Notes
"December 1983." "This document is a preliminary draft. It has not been formally released by EPA and should not at this stage be construed to represent Agency policy." "Do not cite or quote"--Cover. "EPA-600/8-82-004B." Includes bibliographical references. Review draft.