toxaphene

How will I know if toxaphene is in my drinking water?

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How will toxaphene be removed from my drinking water?

How does toxaphene get into my drinking water?

High toxaphene concentrations in fish from a subarctic lake.

EPA regulates toxaphene in drinking water to protect public health.

This health effects language is not intended to catalog all possible health effects for toxaphene.

Modelling the global distribution of toxaphene: A discussion of feasibility and desirability.

What are toxaphene's health effects?

The Phase II Rule, the regulation for toxaphene, became effective in 1992.

In addition, surface water in the adjacent drainage ditch and groundwater under the Site will be monitored for toxaphene.

What are EPA's drinking water regulations for toxaphene?

Rather, it is intended to inform consumers of some of the possible health effects associated with toxaphene in drinking water when the rule was finalized.

Of these chemicals, the most dangerous were toxaphene and phenylmercury acetate, both banned in the European Union since 1983.

What is toxaphene?

Uses for toxaphene.

Major sources of toxaphene in drinking water are runoff/leaching from a banned insecticide that was used on cotton and cattle.

Individual toxaphene congeners are quantitated using the primary ion and confirmed by their secondary ions.

When inhaled or ingested, sufficient quantities of toxaphene can damage the lungs, nervous system, and kidneys, and may cause death.

The health risk they reported was from their assessment of the added risks of PCB's, dieldrin and toxaphene in the fish.

The following treatment method(s) have proven to be effective for removing toxaphene to below 0.003 mg/L or 3 ppb: granular activated carbon.

Individual tests on four pesticides believed to be very weakly estrogenic - dieldrin, endosulfan, toxaphene and chlordane - showed little or no response.

The MCLG for toxaphene is zero.

It was used to treat mange in cattle in California in the 1970s, although there were reports of cattle deaths following spraying with toxaphene.

Focusing on PCB's, toxaphene and dieldrin in particular, the researchers suggested that consumers should probably limit themselves to one meal of farmed salmon per month.