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Title	Health-effects assessment for acenaphthene
Publication Date	1987 Jul 01
OSTI Identifier	OSTI ID: 5289834
Report Number(s)	PB-88-182068/XAB; EPA-600/8-88/010
Resource Type	Technical Report
Resource Relation	Other Information: See also PB--86-134111
Research Org	Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (USA). Office of Environmental Criteria and Assessment
Subject	59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; ACENAPHTHENE; CARCINOGENESIS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; AIR POLLUTION; MUTAGENS; PESTICIDES; POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION; AROMATICS; CONDENSED AROMATICS; HYDROCARBONS; MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PATHOGENESIS; POLLUTION
Description/Abstract	Because of the lack of data for the carcinogenicity and threshold toxicity of acenaphthene risk assessment values cannot be derived. The ambient water-quality criterion of 0.2 mg/l is based on organoleptic data, which has no known relationship to potential human health effects. Acenaphthene has been shown to produce nuclear and cytological changes in microbial and plant species. Results of acenaphthene mutagenicity studies in microorganisms and carcinogenicity study are negative. Despite the negative results in the newt (Triturus cristatus) the fact that acenaphthene is a polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), a class of chemicals that contain carcinogens, the carcinogenic potential of acenaphthene is of great concern. Inadequate evidence to allow any conclusion regarding carcinogenicity for humans appropriately places acenaphthene in EPA Group D.
Country of Publication	United States
Language	English
Format	Medium: X; Size: Pages: 22
Availability	NTIS, PC A03/MF A01.
System Entry Date	2008 Feb 06
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