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Contaminant Specific Fact Sheets
Synthetic Organic Chemicals - Consumer Version

EPA 811-F-95-003-T
October 1995

To see the most current health effects information for each of these contaminants, please visit www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html.

Adipate	Ethylene Dibromide
Alachlor	Glyphosate
Aldicarb/Aldicarb Metabolites	Heptachlor/Heptachlor Epoxide
Atrazine	Hexachlorobenzene
Benzo(a)pyrene	Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
Carbofuran	Lindane
Chlordane	Methoxychlor
2,4 - D	Oxamyl (Vydate)
Dalapon	Pentachlorophenol
Dibromochloropropane	Phthalate, di(2-ethylhexyl)
Dinoseb	Picloram
Dioxin(2,3,7,8-TCDD)	Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Diquat	Simazine
Endothall	Toxaphene
Endrin	2,4,5 - TP (Silvex)

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