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Submarine Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Hydrofluorocarbons HFC-236fa, HFC-23,and HFC-404a (2000) / Chapter Skim
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... Because the submariner population is all male, young, and healthier than the general population, the subcommittee did not use an uncertainty factor to account for intraspecies differences in its calculations. Submarine Exposure Guidance Levels for HFC-23 Exposure Level NRC's Calculated Levels Navy's Proposed Levels 1-fur EEGL 20,000 ppm 2,000 ppm 24-hr EEGL 5,000 ppm 1,000 ppm 90-day CEGL 500 ppm 100 ppm To evaluate the proposed i-fur EEGL of 2,000 ppm for HFC-23, the subcommittee considered the human exposure study by Pagan et al.
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