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New Toxicological Profiles Published

The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) issued on Monday a notice of availability for seven final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances. This is the 20th set of toxicological profiles that ATSDR has compiled. Of those, one, guthion, was a new final toxicological profile. The other six are just updated final toxicological profiles. These include aluminum, cresols, diazinon, dichlopropenes, phenols and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane.

The profiles are available online at the ATSDR website: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html.

Notice of the availability of toxicological profile drafts for public review and comment was published in the Federal Register on Oct., 18, 2006, (71 FR 61471), with notice of a 90-day public comment period for each profile, starting from the actual release date. The public comments and other data submitted carry the docket control number ATSDR- 225. This material is available for public inspection at the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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