The toxic top 20 are listed below from the CERCLA 275 hazardous substance list of 2005. CERCLA is an acronym of Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and liability Act first of 1980 and is a US law created to clean up waste sites dumped with hazardous waste.
For the complete list you can contact CERCLA direct. ATSDR and EPA periodically revise the list and include any new substances classed as hazardous fulfilling the conditions required by CERCLA and any alterations are amended accordingly and published every 2 years and revised annually.
Information regarding the 275 substances can be accessed online at www.atsdr.cdc.gov
The toxic top 20 list below are listed in order of rank as of the 2005 list!
- Arsenic
- Lead
- Mercury
- Vinyl chloride
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Benzine
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Cadmium
- Benzop (A) pyrene
- Benzo (B) fluoranthene
- Chloroform
- DDT, P,P
- Aroclor 1254
- Aroclor 1260
- Dibenzo (A,H) anthracine
- Trichloroethylene
- Dieldrin
- Chromium
- Phosphorus, white
- DDE, P,P
SOURCE:
http://www.fixr.com/info/toxic_substances.html
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