Hirose Akihiko, Hasegawa Ryuichi, Nishikawa Akiyoshi, Takahashi Mika, Ema Makoto
Division of Risk Assessment, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
J Toxicol Sci. 2004 Dec;29(5):535-9. doi: 10.2131/jts.29.535.
The revision of the Japanese drinking water quality guidelines was established in May 2003. The WHO drinking water quality guidelines for the 3(rd) edition were also revised and the draft has been open to the public since last year. Most guideline values of each chemical in both Japan and WHO were quite similar; however, there are different overt values for three chemicals. In this short communication, we describe them and discuss the reason for taking the different toxicity endpoints and derivation method for these three chemicals, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, toluene and vinyl chloride.
日本饮用水水质准则于2003年5月修订。世界卫生组织第三版饮用水水质准则也进行了修订,草案自去年起向公众公开。日本和世界卫生组织各自的每种化学物质的大多数准则值非常相似;然而,有三种化学物质的公开值不同。在这篇简短的通讯中,我们描述了它们,并讨论了对这三种化学物质(邻苯二甲酸二(2-乙基己基)酯、甲苯和氯乙烯)采用不同毒性终点和推导方法的原因。