Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals Volume 20 (2016) / Chapter Skim
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of a substance above which it is predicted that the general population, including susceptible individuals, could experience life-threatening health effects or death. Airborne concentrations below the AEGL-1 represent exposure concentrations that could produce mild and progressively increasing but transient and nondisabling odor, taste, and sensory irritation or certain asymptomatic, nonsensory effects.
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SUMMARY OF REPORT ON GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPING AEGLs As described in Guidelines for Developing Community Emergency Exposure Levels for Hazardous Substances (NRC 1993) and the NRC guidelines report Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals (NRC 2001)
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The update will focus on establishing AEGL-3 values for n-propyl chloroformate and isopropyl chloroformate, but will also consider whether any new data are available that would affect the proposed values for the other 10 chloroformates. APPROACH TO THE STUDY The National Academies convened the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Chloroformates in 2016.
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. Appendix A provides biographical information on the committee members, Appendix B provides the benchmark calculations, Appendix C provides the derivation summaries, Appendix D provides the category plots.
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