Draft technical document guidelines for Canadian drinking water quality - Antimony: References, abbreviations

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Abbreviations

ANSI: American national Standards Institute

APT: Antimony potassium tartrate

As: Arsenic

ATO: Antimony trioxide

ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

BV: Bed volume

BW: Body weight

CAS RN: Chemical Abstract Service registration number

ECCC: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Fe: Iron

FC: Ferric chloride

GI: Gastrointestinal

HA: Humic acid

HBV: Health-based value

IARC: International Agency for Research on Cancer

ICP-MS: Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

In-situ FeOxHy: Freshly prepared ferric hydroxide

LD50: Oral median lethal dose

LOAEL : Lowest-observed-adverse-effect level

LOEL: Lowest-observed-effect-level

MAC: Maximum acceptable concentration

MCL: Maximum contaminant level

MDL: Method detection limit

Mn: Manganese

MRL: Method reporting limit

N: Sample size

NC: Not calculated

NOAEL: No-observed-adverse-effect level

NOM: Natural organic matter

NSF: NSF International

NTU: Nephelometric turbidity unit

OEHHA: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (California EPA)

Pb: Lead

PET: Polyethylene terephthalate

POD: Point of departure

RO: Reverse osmosis

ROS: Reactive oxygen species

SA: Spontaneous abortion

Sb: Antimony

Sb(III): Trivalent antimony

Sb(V): Pentavalent antimony

SCC: Standards Council of Canada

TDI: Tolerable daily intake

TiO2: Titanium dioxide

TMP: Transmembrane pressure

U.S. EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency

WHO: World Health Organization

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