The Petroleum HPV Testing Group was formed with the primary goal of making human health and ecological hazard information on petroleum HPV substance publically available.
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High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals are classified as those chemicals produced or imported in the United States in quantities of 1 million pounds or more per year. In 1998, the HPV Challenge Program was launched in order to collect and make publically available basic hazard data for HPV chemicals.
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The primary objective of the Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC) Project was to investigate the potential relationship(s) between the PAC content of petroleum substances and their human health toxicity. A secondary objective was to determine whether an association, could be used to predict the toxicity of untested petroleum substances.
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