Priority Substances List Assessment Report for Chloroform

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACH : air changes per hour

BMC : Benchmark Concentration

BMD : Benchmark Dose

CAS : Chemical Abstracts Service

CCPA : Canadian Chemical Producers' Association

CEPA : Canadian Environmental Protection Act

CEPA 1999 : Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

CFC : chlorofluorocarbon

CHO : Chinese hamster ovary

CI : confidence interval

CTV : Critical Toxicity Value

CYP : cytochrome P450

DBP : disinfection by-product

EC50 : median effective concentration

EEM : Environmental Effects Monitoring

EEV : Estimated Exposure Value

ENEV : Estimated No-Effects Value

EPA : Environmental Protection Agency (United States)

ETS : environmental tobacco smoke

FDA : Food and Drug Administration (United States)

FEP : fluorinated ethylene-propylene

GWP : Global Warming Potential

HCFC : hydrochlorofluorocarbon

ILSI : International Life Sciences Institute

IPCS : International Programme on Chemical Safety

K_oc : organic carbon/water partition coefficient

K_ow : octanol/water partition coefficient

kg-bw : kilogram body weight

LC₅₀ : median lethal concentration

LD₅₀ : median lethal dose

LOAEL : Lowest-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level

LOEL : Lowest-Observed-Effect Level

NAPS : National Air Pollution Surveillance

NCI : National Cancer Institute (United States)

NOEC : No-Observed-Effect Concentration

ODP : Ozone Depletion Potential

PBPK : physiologically based pharmacokinetic

PCE : polychromatic erythrocyte

POCP : Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential

PSL : Priority Substances List

PTFE : polytetrafluoroethylene

RTECS : Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

RWC : reasonable worst case

SCE : sister chromatid exchange

TC₀₅ : Tumorigenic Concentration₀₅; concentration causing a 5% increase in tumour incidence over background

THM : trihalomethane

UDS : unscheduled DNA synthesis

VOC : volatile organic compound