Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document – Carbon Tetrachloride

Table of Contents

• Part I. Overview and Application
  • 1.0 Guideline
  • 2.0 Executive summary
    • 2.1 Health effects
    • 2.2 Exposure
    • 2.3 Treatment
  • 3.0 Application of the guideline
• Part II. Science and Technical Considerations
  • 4.0 Identity, use, and sources in the environment
    • 4.1 Identity and uses
    • 4.2 Environmental sources and fate
  • 5.0 Exposure
    • 5.1 Water
    • 5.2 Air
    • 5.3 Food
    • 5.4 Multi-route exposure through drinking water
  • 6.0 Analytical methods
  • 7.0 Treatment technology
    • 7.1 Municipal scale
      • 7.1.1 Activated carbon adsorption
      • 7.1.2 Air stripping
      • 7.1.3 Reverse osmosis
      • 7.1.4 Emerging treatment technologies
    • 7.2 Residential scale
  • 8.0 Kinetics and metabolism
    • 8.1 Absorption
    • 8.2 Distribution
    • 8.3 Metabolism
    • 8.4 Excretion
  • 9.0 Health effects
    • 9.1 Effects in humans
      • 9.1.1 Acute and short-term toxicity
      • 9.1.2 Epidemiology (non-cancer effects)
      • 9.1.3 Epidemiology (cancer effects)
      • 9.1.4 Developmental and reproductive effects
    • 9.2 Effects on experimental animals and in vitro
      • 9.2.1 Acute toxicity
      • 9.2.2 Short-term exposure
      • 9.2.3 Long-term exposure and carcinogenicity
      • 9.2.4 Mutagenicity and genotoxicity
      • 9.2.5 Reproductive and developmental toxicity
      • 9.2.6 Mode of action
  • 10.0 Classification and assessment
    • 10.1 International Considerations
  • 11.0 Rationale
  • 12.0 References
• Appendix A: List of acronyms

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Organization: Health Canada

Type: Guidelines

Date published: 2010-09

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