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Health Effects of Organics: Risk and Hazard Assessment of Ingested Chloroform
Author(s) -
Tardiff R. G.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1977.tb06845.x
Subject(s) - chloroform , hazard , perspective (graphical) , health hazard , environmental health , set (abstract data type) , toxicology , medicine , chemistry , mathematics , computer science , chromatography , biology , organic chemistry , geometry , programming language
In the July 1977 JOURNAL, H.E. Stokinger presented a thesis critical of the methodology that stigmatizes certain impurities in water as cancer‐inducing agents. This article is meant to put the total situation in better perspective by explaining the rationale of conservative analysis used to set limits on suspected carcinogens such as chloroform.