World Health Organization Discontinues Its Drinking-Water Guideline for Manganese | Zendy

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World Health Organization Discontinues Its Drinking-Water Guideline for Manganese

Author(s) -

Seth H. Frisbie,

Erika J. Mitchell,

Hannah Dustin,

Donald M. Maynard,

Bibudhendra Sarkar

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1104693

Subject(s) - guideline , environmental health , water quality , public health , discontinuation , government (linguistics) , medicine , nursing , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , biology , surgery

The World Health Organization (WHO) released the fourth edition of Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality in July 2011. In this edition, the 400-µg/L drinking-water guideline for manganese (Mn) was discontinued with the assertion that because "this health-based value is well above concentrations of manganese normally found in drinking water, it is not considered necessary to derive a formal guideline value."

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