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Introduction
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... This tragedy served to focus international attention on the need for governments to identify hazardous substances and to assist local communities in planning how to deal with emergency exposures. In the United States, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA)
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... and only once in a lifetime for the general population, which includes infants, children, the elderly, and persons with diseases, such as asthma, heart disease, or lung disease. The National Research Council (NRC)
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... With increasing airborne concentrations above each AEGE, there is a progressive increase in the likelihood of occurrence and the severity of effects descnbed for each corresponding AEGL. Although the AEGL values represent threshold levels for the general public, including susceptible subpopulations, such as infants, children, the elderly, persons with asthma, and those with other illnesses, it is recognized that individuals, subject to unique or idiosyncratic responses, could experience the effects described at concentrations below the corresponding AEGL.
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... Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. NRC (National Research Council)
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... Washington, DC: National Academy Press. NRC (National Research Council)


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