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An Assessment of the Health Risks of Seven Pesticides Used for Termite Control (1982) / Chapter Skim
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Pentachlorophenol
Pages 33-36

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... Twenty infants became ill and two died after coming into contact with nursery linens that bat been washed with a laundry product containing the sodium salt of pentachloropenol (Armatrong et al., 1969~. The clinical features were characteristic of an increased metabolic rate and included tachycardis, tachypnes, fever, sweating, and acidosis.
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... Spragu - Dawley rats given technical pentachlorophecol at 3 mg/kg per day hat increased liver and kidney weights (Johnson ee al., 1973)
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... ( 1978) study, Sprague-Dawley rats were given a pentachloropbenol sample (having a lower content of nonphenolice than does technical pentachlorophenol)
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... The OSIlA (1981) permissible workplace exposure ~ imit is nenta chloro cheno 1 O.S mg/~3.
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