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  <id>15671</id>
  <title>environmental health criteria documents</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - environmental health criteria documents</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.15671</doi>
  <code>15671</code>
  <status>current</status>
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      <id>1</id>
      <text>Critical publications of IPCS containing reviews of methodologies and existing knowledge—expressed, if possible, in quantitative terms—of selected substances (or groups of substances) on identifiable, immediate, and long-term effects on human health and welfare.</text>
      <links>
        <item>
          <term>health</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/15757</url>
        </item>
      </links>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1214 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153)</item>
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    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: 'environmental health criteria documents' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.15671</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-06-06T21:40:25+00:00</accessed>
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