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RECORD NUMBER: 315 OF 1458

Main Title Drinking Water Criteria Document for Polychlorinated Biphenyls(PCBs). 1987 Review of the Draft Final.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Science Advisory Board.
Publisher 9 Mar 88
Year Published 1988
Report Number SAB/EHC-88/019;
Stock Number PB89-105845
Additional Subjects Potable water ; Toxicology ; Reviews ; Exposure ; Toxicity ; Contaminants ; Metabolism ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Water pollution ; Public health ; Laboratory animals ; Risk ; Carcinogens ; Mutagens ; Drinking water ; Water quality criteria ; Environmental health ; Water pollution effects(Humans) ; Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Polychlorinated biphenyls ; Biphenyl/Polychloro ; Path of pollutants
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NTIS  PB89-105845 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The Halogenated Organics Subcommittee of the Science Advisory Board's Environmental Health Committee completed its independent scientific review of the Draft Drinking Water Criteria Document for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). The review was conducted in Washington, D.C. November 19-20, 1987. The major recommendation of the Subcommittee was that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explore whether the available data on PCB congeners can be developed on a scale of toxicity similar to the toxicity equivalency factor that the Agency had already prepared for dioxins. The efforts could potentially yield some scientifically interesting insights relating to uncertainties in the PCB data base even if it represents only an approximation in which data analysis and scientific judgement are combined. In general the Subcommittee concluded that the document suffers from a failure to clearly identify its scientific objectives.