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EC number: 200-663-8 | CAS number: 67-66-3
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
Additional information
The overview of environmental data given here is based on the draft version of the European Union Risk Assessment Report available for chloroform. It was considered to represent the available studies in an appropriate manner.
Environmental compartment |
Region (Time period) |
Median/mean concentration |
Ambient air: Remote areas |
open sea (before 1989) |
60 to 110 ug/m3 |
UK (1972) |
1.7 ug/m3 |
|
Northern Atlantic (1982-1985) |
100 to 250 ug/m3 |
|
North-Eastern (before 1987) |
59 to 110 ug/m3 |
|
Norway coasts (1982) |
80 ug/m3 |
|
Norway coasts (1983) |
132 ug/m3 |
|
Spitzbergen (before 1990) |
98 ug/m3 |
|
Ambient air: Rural areas |
Brittany (1985) |
0.105 ug/m3 |
Netherlands (1991) |
0.08 to 0.12 ug/m3 |
|
UK (before 1975) |
0.004 to 0.59 ug/m3 |
|
Ireland (1974) |
0.13 ug/m3 |
|
Germany (1982-1996) |
0.07 to 0.6 ug/m3 |
|
Norway (before 1990) |
0.073 ug/m3 |
|
Finland (1987) |
0.063 ug/m3 |
|
Ambient air: Urban areas |
Belgium (1974-1975) |
2.39 to 14.6 ug/m3 |
Netherland (1991) |
0.13 to 0.16 ug/m3 |
|
UK (before 1991) |
0.2 to 9.5 ug/m3 |
|
Germany (1986-1996) |
0.16 to 1.14 ug/m3 |
|
Italy (1987-1988) |
0.14 to 0.83 ug/m3 |
|
France (2000) |
0.9 ug/m3 |
|
Precipitation |
Germany (1989) |
0.04 to 0.1 ug/L |
Germany (1987-1988) |
0.01 to 0.52 ug/L |
|
Germany (1988) |
0.79 ug/L |
|
Surface water: Rivers |
Belgium (1992) |
0.2 ug/L |
Netherlands (1990-1992) |
0.1 to 09 ug/L |
|
UK (1993-1996) |
0.05 to 6.1 ug/L (maximum 0.3 to 240 ug/L) |
|
Germany (1983-1994) |
0.1 to 2.6 ug/L |
|
Germany (1984-1989) |
0.1 to 15 ug/L |
|
Germany (1981-1990) |
0.17 to 1.54 ug/L |
|
Germany (1989) |
ca. 1 ug/L |
|
Germany (1983-1991) |
0.01 to 1.6 ug/L |
|
Surface water: Lakes |
Lake Constance (1983-1990) |
0.01 to 0.1 ug/L |
Estuarine water |
Netherlands/Belgium (1993) |
0.15 ug/L |
Netherlands (1992) |
0.005 to 0.09 ug/L |
|
Netherlands (1993) |
0.06 to 0.15 ug/L |
|
UK (1987-1995) |
0.025 to 11.5 ug/L |
|
Mersey, (1987-1990) |
2.7 to 70 ug/L |
|
Germany (1976) |
0.7 to 1.4 ug/L |
|
Germany (1981-1982) |
0.04 ug/L |
|
Germany (1993) |
0.01 to 0.09 ug/L |
|
Germany (1993) |
0.02 to 0.2 ug/L |
|
Coastal water |
UK (before 1975) |
1 ug/L |
Baltic Sea (1983) |
0.06 to 0.17 ug/L |
|
North Sea (1983) |
0.56 to 3.8 ug/L |
|
Sweden (1988) |
0.005 to 0.015 ug/L |
|
Sea water |
Northern hemisphere (before 1983) |
0.33 to 1.09 ug/L |
North-Eastern (1972) |
0.008 ug/L |
|
Madeira-Gibraltar (1985) |
0.0016 ug/L |
|
Sediment |
UK (before 1991) |
23 ug/L |
Germany (1981) |
1.9 to 2.3 ug/L |
|
Germany (1983-1985) |
18.1 ug/L |
|
Germany (1983-1985) |
3.9 ug/L |
|
Germany (1982-1983) |
approximately 18 ug/L |
|
Germany (1987-1988) |
approximate 90 ug/L |
|
Germany (1987-1988) |
approximately 190 ug/L |
|
Lake (1984-1990) |
50 to 680 ug/L |
|
Soil |
Netherlands (before 1989) |
5 to 13 mg/kg dw |
Germany 1983-1985) |
0.0044 mg/kg dw |
|
Soil-air |
Southern German Forests (1987) |
0.4 to 77.4 ug/m3 |
Soil percolation water |
Germany (1989) |
0.02 to 0.54 ug/L |
Groundwater |
UK (before 1984-1993) |
0.1 to 20.8 ug/L |
Germany (1978-1989) |
0.1 to 2.5 ug/L |
|
Spain (before 1992) |
9 to 48 ug/L |
|
Mussels, snails |
UK (around 1975) |
3 to 1040 ug/kg wet weight |
Shellfish |
UK (around 1975) |
ND to 180 ug/kg wet weight |
Fish |
UK (around 1975) |
2 to 851 ug/kg wet weight |
Seal |
UK (around 1975) |
7.6 to 22 ug/kg wet weight |
Marine birds eggs |
UK (around 1975) |
0.7 to 65 ug/kg wet weight |
Marine birds liver |
UK (around 1975) |
7.4 to 17.3 ug/kg wet weight |
Water birds eggs |
UK (around 1975) |
10 to 29 ug/kg wet weight |
Water birds muscle |
UK (around 1975) |
8.2 ug/kg wet weight |
Human breast milk |
USA (late 1970s) |
0.1 to 65 ug/L |
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