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Suggested Citation:"Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2010. Seventeenth Interim Report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12870.
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Abbreviations

ACGIH American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, a member-based organization for advancement of occupational and environmental health.

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

AVT auditory vigilance task

BEI biologic exposure index

CalEPA California Environmental Protection Agency

CAS Chemical Abstracts Service

CEEL Department of Health and Human Services community emergency exposure levels

CHPPM U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

DCM dichloromethane (also known as methylene chloride)

DOD U.S. Department of Defense

DOT U.S. Department of Transportation

CNS central nervous system

COHb carboxyhemoglobin

EEG electroencephalography

EEGL emergency exposure guideline level

EHS extremely hazardous substance

EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FEV1 forced expiratory volume in 1 second

IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer

ICPS International Programme on Chemical Safety

IDLH immediately dangerous to life or health

IRIS Integrated Risk Information System

LC50 concentration of a substance that is lethal to 50% of test organisms in a given time

LD50 dose of a substance that is lethal to 50% of test organisms in a given time

LOEL lowest-observed-effect level

LOAEL lowest observed-adverse-effect level

MEG military exposure guideline

MF modifying factor

NAC National Advisory Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances

NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NOAEL no-observed-adverse-effect level

NOEL no-observed-effect level

NTIS National Technical Information Service

NTP National Toxicology Program

OEHHA California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Suggested Citation:"Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2010. Seventeenth Interim Report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12870.
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OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

PBPK physiologically based pharmacokinetic

PNS peripheral nervous system

POD point of departure

RBC red blood cell

RD50 concentration of a substance that reduced the respiratory rate of test organisms by 50% REL reference exposure level

RIVM Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

SD standard deviation

SOP Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals

SRaw specific airway resistance

STEL short-term exposure limit

TCE trichloroethylene

TCOH trichloroethanol

TLV Threshold Limit Value

TSD technical support document

UF uncertainty factor

WEEL workplace environmental exposure limit

Suggested Citation:"Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2010. Seventeenth Interim Report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12870.
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Suggested Citation:"Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2010. Seventeenth Interim Report of the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12870.
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Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, and other accidents, or intentionally through terrorist activities. Workers and residents in communities surrounding industrial facilities where EHSs are manufactured, used, or stored and in communities along the nation's railways and highways are potentially at risk of being exposed to airborne EHSs during accidental or intentional releases.

To help understand the risk involved with EHSs, the National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances developed Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) for approximately 200 EHSs.

The present volume is the seventeenth interim report evaluating the AEGLs.

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