Arsenic

May 2006

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Table of Contents

• 1.0 Guideline
• 2.0 Executive summary
  • 2.1 Health effects
  • 2.2 Exposure
  • 2.3 Treatment
• 3.0 Application of the guideline
• 4.0 Identity, use, and sources in the environment
• 5.0 Exposure
  • 5.1 Water
  • 5.2 Food
  • 5.3 Air
  • 5.4 Soil
  • 5.5 Estimates of total exposure to arsenic
• 6.0 Analytical methods
• 7.0 Treatment technology
  • 7.1 Municipal-scale
  • 7.2 Residential-scale
• 8.0 Kinetics and metabolism
  • 8.1 Essentiality
  • 8.2 Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination
• 9.0 Health effects
  • 9.1 Effects in humans
  • 9.2 Effects in experimental animals and in vitro
  • 9.3 Relative toxicity of arsenic compounds in humans
• 10.0 Classification and assessment
• 11.0 Rationale
• 12.0 References
• Appendix A: List of acronyms