Health advisory for zinc chloride

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6713426

Donohue, J M; Gordon, L; Kirman, C; Roberts, W C

The Health Advisory (HA) provides information on the health effects, analytical methodology and treatment technology that would be useful in dealing with zinc chloride contamination of drinking water. Based on available toxicity data the HA values for zinc chloride are given. Zinc chloride is classified as Group D, not classifiable as to human carcinogenicity. Health Advisories describe nonregulatory concentrations of drinking water contaminants at which adverse health effects would not be anticipated to occur over specific exposure durations. The HAs, developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (OW), are not legally enforceable Federal standards and are subject to change as new information becomes available. Health Advisories are developed for One-day, Ten-day, Longer-term and Lifetime exposures based on data describing noncarcinogenic end points of toxicity. For those substances that are known or probable human carcinogens, according to the EPA classification scheme, Lifetime HAs are not recommended.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of the Assistant Administrator for Water
• OSTI ID: 6713426
• Report Number(s): PB-93-136620/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BIOLOGY
CARCINOGENS
CHALCOGENIDES
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
CLASSIFICATION
CONTAMINATION
DRINKING WATER
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INGESTION
INTAKE
IONS
LIFETIME
METABOLISM
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
PUBLIC HEALTH
STANDARDS
SULFATES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
TOXICITY
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER QUALITY
ZINC CHLORIDES
ZINC COMPOUNDS
ZINC HALIDES
ZINC IONS
ZINC OXIDES
ZINC SULFATES