This discussion addresses questions of possible mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and teratogenicity relative to exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water. The author highlights results of mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and teratogenicity studies of PCE. Results of these studies indicated that there...
Impact of tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water on the risk of breast cancer: Using a dose model to assess exposure in a case-control study Vieira V, Aschengrau A, Ozonoff D: Impact of tetrachloroethylene- contaminated drinking water on the risk of breast cancer: Using a dose model ...
The γ-radiation degradation of trace amounts (70–440 ppb) of trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene in drinking water has been investigated. The doses necessary to reduce the pollutant concentration to 1 ppb are in the order of 1 kGy.DOI...
Drinking water transported in vinyl-coated asbestos-cement pipes often contains elevated concentrations of tetrachloroethylene, which is used as solvent during application of the vinyl coating. Tetrachloroethylene contamination of drinking waters flowing in vinyl-coated asbestos-cement pipes in Falmouth, Mass...
20.Environmental Protection Agency has more about tetrachloroethylene in drinking water.
... Tower aeration is the most cost-effective technique for removing volatile organic chlorine chemicals from drinking water. /Volatile organic chlorine chemicals/PRECAUTIONS FOR "CARCINOGENS": There is no universal method of disposal that has been proved satisfactory for all carcinogenic compounds & ...
drinking water (Bove et al., 1995). In a different retrospective cohort design study, involving over 1000 PCE-exposed and PCE-unexposed pregnancies in women from New York, it has been reported that prenatal PCE exposure through contaminated drinking water could increase the risk of stillbirth, ...
[Commentary on] Prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of congenital anomalies: a retrospective cohort study Alternative Medicine ReviewAschengrau AWeinberg JMJanulewicz PAGallagher LGWinter MRVieira VM
(Santa Ana, CA) –- Information provided to the OC Health Care Agency (HCA) indicates that tetrachloroethylene has been detected in subsurface and indoor air samples at 1002 E. 17th Street, Suites A-R in the City of Santa Ana. Sampling of soil and sub-s
Perchloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of breast cancer: additional results from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. In 1998 we published the results of a study suggesting an association between breast cancer and perchloroethylene (PCE; also called tetrachloroethylene) ex... A Aschen...