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Integrated Framework for the Health-Related Components of Categorization of the Domestic Substances List Under CEPA 1999: Questions & Answers

List of Acronyms

• ADI acceptable daily intake
• B bioaccumulation/bioaccumulative
• CEPA 1999 Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
• ComET complex exposure tool
• ComHaz complex hazard tool
• DSL Domestic Substances List
• FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• GPE greatest potential for exposure
• HH high hazard
• IPE intermediate potential for exposure
• ITeco inherently toxic to non-human organisms
• IThuman inherently toxic to humans
• IUCLID International Uniform Chemical Information Database
• LPE lowest potential for exposure
• P persistence/persistent
• PSL Priority Substances List
• PSL1 First Priority Substances List
• PSL2 Second Priority Substances List
• QSAR quantitative structure-activity relationship
• RfD reference dose
• SAR structure-activity relationship
• SimET simple exposure tool
• SimHaz simple hazard tool
• TC tolerable concentration
• TDI tolerable daily intake
• TOXNET Toxicology Data Network
• TSCATS Toxic Substances Control Act Test Submission
• UVCB substance of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products and biological material
• WHO World Health Organization