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Human Health Criteria - Methylmercury Fish Tissue Criterion (Document)
Human Health Criteria - Methylmercury Fish Tissue Criterion (Document)
January 2001; EPA-823-R-01-001
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Final guidance for using this criterion (PDF) (221 pp, 3.03MB) is available.
Complete Document (PDF) (303 pp, 1.0MB) (EPA-823-B-01-001)
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- External Peer Reviewers
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- Chapter: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Toxicokinetics
- Chapter 3: Toxicological Basis for Criteria
- Chapter 4: Risk Assessment for Methylmercury
- Chapter 5: Exposure Assessment
- Chapter 6: Mercury Bioaccumulation
- Chapter 7: Water Quality Criterion Calculation
- Chapter 8: References
- Appendix A
- Section I: Draft National Methylmuercury Bioaccumulation Factors
- Section II: Chemical Translators for Mercury & Methylmercury
