The Health and Environmental Effects Profile for Merphos was prepared by the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, Cincinnati, OH for the Office of Solid Waste to support listings of hazardous constituents of a wide range of waste streams under Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Both published literature and information obtained from Agency program office files were evaluated as they pertained to potential human health, aquatic life and environmental effects of hazardous waste constituents. Quantitative estimates have been presented provided sufficient data are available. Merphos has been determined to be a systemic toxicant. An Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI), defined as the amount of a chemical to which humans can be exposed on a daily basis over an extended period of time (usually a lifetime) without suffering a deleterious effect, for Merphos is .0018 (mg/kg bw/day) for oral exposure.

"Prepared by Syracuse Research Corporation under EPA contract no. 68-03-3228." "Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development." "January 1984." "EPA 600-X-84-205." Includes bibliographical references.