Environmentally hazardous substance

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publishes sets of Series Methods that describe procedures for detecting and estimating the quantity of environmentally hazardous substances. There are strict requirements for accuracy, reproducibility, and for calibration of mass spectrometers. 

The Environmental Protection Agency lays down strict guidelines for the analysis of a range of environmentally hazardous substances. Many of the analyses utilize GC/MS. 

Poly(vinyl chloride) is Hsted on the TSCA inventory and the Canadian Domestic Substances List (DSL) as ethene, chloro-, homopolymer [9002-86-2]. Because polymers do not appear on the European Community Commercial Chemical Substances listing or EINECS, poly(vinyl chloride) is listed through its monomer, vinyl chloride [75-01-4]. In the United States, poly(vinyl chloride) is an EPA hazardous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act Section 112 (40 CER 61) and is covered under the New Jersey Community Right-to-Know Survey N.J. Environmental Hazardous Substances (EHS) List as "chloroethylene, polymer" with a reporting threshold of 225 kg (500 lb). 

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application to Environmentally Hazardous Substances) Regulations 1996 as amended... 

Any material on the Environmental Hazardous Substance List/USDOT Hazardous Materials Table, must be reported at any quantity, if it was present at your facility. 

This section contains the environmental hazardous substance list and US DOT Hazardous Materials Table. The information in this section has been extracted from the document New Jersey DEQ-094 (10/90). 

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE LIST / U.S. DOT HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TABLE... 

Procedures of identification of environmentally hazardous substances and reqirements to sampling, further treatment and quality control... 

Hazardous substance requires SIC employers to submit Community Right-to-Know survey listing environmental hazardous substances present at their facilities in quantities that exceed 500 pounds... 

In the U.S.. poly(vinyl chlonde) is an EPA hazardous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act Section 112 (40 CFR 61) and is covered under the New Jersey Community Riglit-to-Know Survey N.J. Environmental Hazardous Substances (EIlS) List as chloroethylene. polymer with a reporting threshold of 225 kg (500 lb). 

Hughes WW (1996) Essentials of Environmental Toxicology Environmentally Hazardous Substances and Human Health. Philadelphia, PA Taylor and Francis. 

Classified as an environmentally hazardous substance and considered to be a marine pollutant. 

FDA approved for food contact under 21CFR175.105, 176.170 and 176.180. Regulated as an environmentally hazardous substance by DOT. 

These are the minimum data requirements for notiEcation under the Swiss Ordinance on Environmentally Hazardous Substances. 

The 1983 Federal Law on Environmental Protection deals mainly with the effect of chemicals on the environment and on humans via the environment. The Law is implemented through various Ordinances dealing with specific aspects of environmental protection, such as air and soil pollution, waste disposal, noise and radiation. The 1986 Ordinance on Environmentally Hazardous Substances (OEHS) requires the measures discussed below. 

There are currently no official Swiss criteria fcv classification of substances as dangerous for the environment , although in due course the EC scheme is likely to be adc ted. Hence the EC classification and labelling can be used for Switzerland, except for the EC hazard symbol. There arc also no criteria fw classification and labelling of chemical products containing substances which are dangerous for the environment , although their evaluation will take account of the content of such environmentally hazardous substances. 

From a regulatory perspective, abandoned landfills are abandoned and inactive waste disposal sites, regardless of the point in time at which they were rendered inactive, illegal waste disposal sites that existed before the enactment of the respective waste laws (so-called illegal dumps ) and other abandoned/inactive dumps or fills whereas abandoned contamination sites are sites of inactive installations that handled environmentally hazardous substances (i.e., these are primarily old industrial and commercial facilities). 

Part III Environmentally Hazardous Substances in Working Medicine... 

Hughes, W.W. (1996). Essentials of environmental toxicology. The effects of environmental hazardous substances on human health. Loma, Lind Califonia. Tay and Francais Publishers, pp 3, 87-95. 

Environmentally hazardous substance, liquid, n.o.s., 9 Environmentally hazardous substance, solid, n.o.s., 9 Hazardous substances, liquid or solid, n.o.s. 

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