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Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion (2005)
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Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion

TABLE 1-2 Perchlorate Drinking-Water Concentrations Based on Monitoring Data from Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule as of May 2004

	Perchlorate			Samples
Location	Minimal Concentration (ppb)^a	Maximal Concentration (ppb)	Median Concentration (ppb)^b	Number above MRL	Total	Fraction below MRL (%)
United States	<4	200^c	6.4	535	28,179	98.1
Puerto Rico	<4	420	NA	1	734	99.9
California	<4	67^d	6.7	364	8,179	95.5
^a1 ppb = 1 µg/L. ^bMedian perchlorate concentration of values above the minimum reporting level (<4 ppb). ^cMaximum in United States was measured in Duval County, Florida. ^dMaximum in California was measured in San Bernardino County. Abbreviations: MRL, minimum reporting level (<4 ppb); NA, not applicable. Source: Data from EPA 2004a.