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Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants Volume 2 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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... Presentation at the First Meeting on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants, January 23, 2003, Washington, DC.
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... 1993. Acute effects of m-xylene inhalation on body sway, reaction times, and sleep in man.
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... 1983. Visual evoked potentials in short-term exposure of human subjects to m-xylene and1,1,1-trichloroethane.
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... He received his DVM from Colorado State University. He completed a combined PhD and residency program in toxicology at the University of Illinois at Prepublication Copy 217
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... 218 Prepublication Copy Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants Champaign-Urbana and is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and the American Board of Toxicology. MAUREEN FEUSTON is associate vice president for drug-safety evaluation at sanofi-aventis Inc.
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... Appendix Prepublication Copy 219 serves on the National Research Council Subcommittee on Spacecraft Exposure Guidelines and served on the Subcommittee on Submarine Escape Action Levels and the Subcommittee on Copper in Drinking Water. She received her PhD in physiology and ecology from the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington.
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... A mononuclear phagocytic cell arising from monocytic stem cells in bone marrow whose function is to ingest and digest foreign matter in the alveoli.1 220 Prepublication Copy
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... CEGL. See continuous exposure guidance level.
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... Permanent damage or injury to health. Emergency exposure guidance levels (EEGLs)
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... NIOSH. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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... . As defined by ACGIH, a STEL is a "15-minute TWA exposure for a regulated chemical that should not be exceeded at any time during a workday, even if the 8-hour TWA is within the TLV-TWA or PEL-TWA."21 Short-term public emergency guidance levels (SPEGLs)
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... SPEGL. See short-term public emergency guidance levels.
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... Presentation at the First Meeting on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants. January 23, 2003, Washington, DC.
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... , Short-Term Public Emergency Guidance Level (SPEGL) , and Continuous Exposure Guidance Level (CEGL)
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Key Terms

  • reaction time
  • hippuric acid
  • steady state
  • prepublication copy
  • exposure guidance

  • guidance levels
  • workers exposed
  • pulmonary edema
  • neurobehavioral effects
  • xylene exposure

  • body sway
  • exposure period
  • mixed xylene
  • submarine contaminants
  • selected submarine

  • laboratory animals
  • continuous exposure
  • lung function
  • oil mist
  • organic solvents

  • inhalation exposure
  • reaction times
  • evoked potentials
  • bone marrow
  • rats exposed

  • occupational safety
  • oil mists
  • human subjects
  • visual evoked
  • occupational exposure


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