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Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Selected Airborne Contaminants: Volume 5 (2008)
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST)

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Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Selected Airborne Contaminants, Volume 5

TABLE 16-4 Summary of Acceptable Concentrations and SMACs for Various Durations

Adverse End Point

Exposure Data

Species and Reference

LOAEL/NOAEL

Acceptable Concentrations, ppm

1h

24 h

7 d

30 d

180 d

1,000 d

Ocular and throat irritation and slight dyspnea

Inhalation of PG; 1 min; mean concentration = 309 mg/m3 (~ 96 ppm)

Human, Wieslander et al. 2001

LOAEL = 96 pp

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Nasal hemorrhage and ocular discharge

Inhalation of PG; 6 h/d, 5 d/wk; 0.16, 1.01, 2.18 mg/L (160, 1,000, 2,200 mg/m3 or 50, 313, 688 ppm)

Sprague-Dawley rat, Suber et al. 1989

NOAEL for 1 wk = 50 ppm; ten Berge method used

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Nasal hemorrhage and ocular discharge

Inhalation of PG; 6 h/d, 5 d/wk; 0.16, 1.01, 2.18 mg/L (160, 1,000, 2,200 mg/m3 or 50, 313, 688 ppm)

Sprague-Dawley rat, Suber et al. 1989

NOAEL for 1 wk = 50 ppm

9

Nasal hemorrhage and ocular discharge

Inhalation of PG; 6 h/d, 5 d/wk; 0.16, 1.01, 2.18 mg/L (160, 1,000, 2,200 mg/m3 or 50, 313, 688 ppm)

Sprague-Dawley rat, Suber et al. 1989

LOAEL for 2 wk = 50 ppm

3

Thickening of respiratory epithelium with increased goblet cells and their mucin

Inhalation of PG; 6 h/d, 5 d/wk; 0.16, 1.01, 2.18 mg/L (160, 1,000, 2,200 mg/m3 or 50, 313, 688 ppm)

Sprague-Dawley rat, Suber et al. 1989

NOAEL = 50 ppm

1.5

1.5

SMACs

 

 

 

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17

9

3

1.5

1.5

Abbreviations: LOAEL, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level; NOAEL, no-observed-adverse-effect level; —, not calculated.

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