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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Acidic Deposition Phenomenon and Its Effect, vol. 2 Effects Sciences, Critical Assessment Review Papers, Report EPA 600/9-83-016AF, EPA, Washington, D.C., 1984, pp. 4—11. 

EPA. 1982b. Retention and transformation of selected pesticides and phosphoms in soil- water systems A critical review. Athens, GA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA-600/S3-82/060. 

The definitions of method detection and quantification limits should be reliable and applicable to a variety of extraction procedures and analytical methods. The issue is of particular importance to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and also pesticide regulatory and health agencies around the world in risk assessment. The critical question central to risk assessment is assessing the risk posed to a human being from the consumption of foods treated with pesticides, when the amount of the residue present in the food product is reported nondetect (ND) or no detectable residues . 

For instance, a company might have a 50-day supply of product available, but be incurring a 250-a-day fine from the Environmental Protection Agency for each day it operates without a scrubber. Under these circumstances, it might be expedient not to crash those activities on the critical path whose slopes are greater than 250 per day. 

Analytical chemistry is a critical component of worker safety, re-entry, and other related studies intended to assess the risk to humans during and subsequent to pesticide applications. The analytical aspect takes on added significance when such studies are intended for submission to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and/or other regulatory authorities and are thus required to be conducted according to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Standards, or their equivalent. This presentation will address test, control, and reference substance characterization, use-dilution (tank mix) verification, and specimen (exposure matrix sample) analyses from the perspective of GLP Standards requirements. 

Witter E (1992) Heavy metal concentrations in agricultural soils critical to microorganisms. Report No. 4079. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Solna... 

EPA. 1989c. Delayed reproductive effects following exposure to toxic chemicals during critical developmental periods. Research Triangel park, NC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. NTIS PB90-112830.->c... 

This work was supported, in part, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. The author also would like to thank many of his current and past students for their input to the material presented in this article, to Professor John H. Seinfeld for his encouragement for the publication of this work, and to Professors Arthur Fontijn and Robert W. Carr, Jr., for their critical review of the manuscript. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed that "The annual alpha radiation dose rate to members of the critical segment of the exposed population as the result of exposure to transuranium elements in the general environment should not exceed either 1 millirad per year to the plumonary lung, or 3 millirad per year to the bone" (54). The USEPA also derived a soil contamination level of 0.2 pCi/m2 Tl cm depth, soil particles less than 2 mm) as a reasonable "screening" level for which the resultant dose rates to the critical segment of the exposed population could be reasonably predicted to be less than the guidance recommendations. 

Pohland, F. G., and Harper, S. R. (1985). Critical Review and Summary of Leachate and Gas Production from Landfills. EPA-600/2-86-073, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati (OH, USA). 

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, has developed an inhalation reference exposure level of 50ppb (300 pgm ) based on a whole-body inhalation study in rats, 7hday, 5 days week for 6 months. The critical effects are pathological changes in the liver and kidney, with an (average experimental exposure) LOAEL of 5.3 ppm, and a total uncertainty factor of 300. 

The US Environmental Protection Agency IRIS developed an oral reference dose of 2.5 x 10 mg kg day based on a 13 week feeding study in rats. The no-observed-effect level was identified as 125 ppm. The critical effect was identified as neurological dysfunction. 

Hexane is currently under review for its carcinogenicity however, it is not classified as a carcinogen at the present time. A US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reference concentration of 0.2mgm was calculated based on an epidemiological inhalation study with an uncertainty factor of 300. Critical effects were reported to be neurotoxicity and electrophysiological alterations. 

The US Environmental Protection Agency Integrated Risk Information System provides a chronic oral reference dose (RfD) of O.lmg/kg-day (file last update September 1997). The RfD is based on a critical effect of methemoglobinemia in infants chronically exposed to nitrites in drinking water. 

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