Ammonia health effects. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5499604

Carson, B L; Ellis, III, H V; Beall, C M; Baker, L H

Health effects literature primarily related to inhalation exposures to ammonia was collected, evaluated, tabulated, and summarized. Approximately 200 documents were collected from computerized and manual literature searches covering the period 1886-1981. Pharmacologists and an M.D. epidemiologist rated the documents according to their applicability to the study and their methodology. The approximately 50 documents considered useful for deriving a range of concern for human exposure to ammonia from automotive emissions were tabulated. The 50 pages of tables detail the results of acute, repeated dose, and chronic testing of bats, mice, rats, guinea pigs, chickens, rabbits, cats, monkeys, dogs, turkeys, swine, and humans as well as human occupational and accidental studies. Most of the documents evaluated are described in an annotated bibliography.

• Research Organization: Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (USA); Environmental Protection Agency, Ann Arbor, MI (USA). Emission Control Technology Div.
• OSTI ID: 5499604
• Report Number(s): PB-82-116047
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AIR POLLUTION
AMMONIA
BIOASSAY
CHRONIC EXPOSURE
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
EXHAUST GASES
FLUIDS
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
HYDRIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
LABORATORY ANIMALS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN HYDRIDES
NUMERICAL DATA
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
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POLLUTION
POPULATIONS
RESPIRATION
TOXICITY
WASTES