Priority Substances List Assessment Report for Formaldehyde

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

CAS :  Chemical Abstracts Service

CEPA : Canadian Environmental Protection Act

CEPA 1999 : Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

CFD : computational fluid dynamics

CI : confidence interval

CIIT : Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology

CTV : Critical Toxicity Value

DPX : DNA-protein crosslinking

EEV : Estimated Exposure Value

ENEV : Estimated No-Effects Value

EPA : Environmental Protection Agency

ETS : environmental tobacco smoke

GWP : Global Warming Potential

kg-bw : kilogram body weight

K_aw : air/water partition coefficient

K_oc : organic carbon/water partition coefficient

K_ow : octanol/water partition coefficient

LCL : lower confidence limit

LOEC : Lowest-Observed-Effect Concentration

MDF : medium-density fibreboard

MIR : maximum incremental reactivity

MS : mainstream

NAPS : National Air Pollution Surveillance

NOEC : No-Observed-Effect Concentration

NOEL : No-Observed-Effect Level

NO_X : nitrogen oxides

NPRI : National Pollutant Release Inventory

ODP : Ozone Depletion Potential

OR : odds ratio

PEFR : peak expiratory flow rate

PMR : proportionate mortality ratio

POCP : Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential

PSL : Priority Substances List

RR : relative risk

SIR : standardized incidence ratio

SMR : standardized mortality ratio

SPIR : standardized proportionate incidence ratio

SS : sidestream

TC : Tolerable Concentration

TC₀₅ : tumorigenic concentration associated with a 5% increase in tumour incidence over background

UF : urea-formaldehyde

UFFI : urea-formaldehyde foam insulation

VOC : volatile organic compound