POTENTIAL HEALTH
 SUBSTANCE EFFECTs/SYMPTOMS

 NETROBENZENE* Symptoms include bluish skin, shallow
 breathing, vomiting, and death.
 PARAFFIN Impurities in paraffin are carcinogenic.
 Carcinogenic. Can also cause central-
 nervous-system depression, light-
 PENTACHLOROPHENOL headeddness, dizziness, sleepiness,
 nausea, tremor, loss of appetite,
 disorientation and liver damage.
 Suspected human carcinogen.
 Symptoms include skin eruptions and
 peeling, swelling, pimples, hives,
 PHENOL burning, gangrene, numbness, vomiting,
 circulatory collapse, paralysis.
 convulsions, cold sweats, coma and
 death.
 Over 100 in common use are thought to
 be carcinogenic, mutagenic, or
 PESTICIDES, teratogenic. Symptoms include
 HERBICIDES, AND paralysis, neuritis, sterility,
 FUNGICIDES* convulsions, dizziness, weakness, tiny
 pupils, blurred vision, muscle twitching.
 (Owr 150 are used in slowed heartbeat, aplastic anemia,
 conswner procfts, nausea, cough, diarrhea, tremors,
 combined with -2000 damage to the liver, kidneys, and lungs,
 other poss/ble toxic to ear, nose and throat,
 substances to make hyperirritability, brain hemorrhages,
 nearly 350 pesticide central-nervous-system effects,
 products) decreased fertility and sexual function,
 l I" Iand altered menstrual periods.


Substianwmces marked with an asterisk () have been listed by the U.& Emn ironmental
Prnectiion Agency as "priry polteMutants" recognized as being hazardous to human
health.
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