U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Naphthalene: Drinking water health advisory
Abstract
The Drinking Water Health Advisory, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has issued its report on the chemical, naphthalene. Naphthalene is used in the manufacture of phthalic and anthranilic acids and other derivatives, and in making dyes; in the manufacture of resins, celluloid, lampblack and smokeless gunpowder; and as moth repellant, insecticide, anthelmintic, vermicide, and intestinal antiseptic. The report covers the following areas: the occurrence of the chemical in the environment; its environmental fate; the chemical's absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion in the human body; and its health effects on humans and animals, including its mutagenicity and carcinogenicity characteristics. Also included is the quantification of its toxicological effects.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Office of the Assistant Administrator for Water
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5949033
- Report Number(s):
- PB-91-160689/XAB
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; NAPHTHALENE; TOXICITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; WATER POLLUTION; AROMATICS; CONDENSED AROMATICS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PATHOGENESIS; POLLUTION; WATER; 540320* - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-); 560300 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology
Citation Formats
. Naphthalene: Drinking water health advisory. United States: N. p., 1990.
Web.
. Naphthalene: Drinking water health advisory. United States.
. 1990.
"Naphthalene: Drinking water health advisory". United States.
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