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  • Maximum Allowable Concentration

Maximum Allowable Concentration(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Maximum Allowable Concentration
Used for/see from:
  • n: MPEL
  • n: Maximum Permissible Exposure Concentration
  • Maximum Permissible Exposure Level
  • n: Allowable Concentration, Maximum
  • n: Allowable Concentrations, Maximum
  • n: Concentration, Maximum Allowable
  • n: Concentrations, Maximum Allowable
  • n: MPELs
  • n: Maximum Allowable Concentrations

usually NIM; coordinate with specific drug or substance (without qualifiers)

The maximum exposure to a biologically active physical or chemical agent that is allowed during an 8-hour period (a workday) in a population of workers, or during a 24-hour period in the general population, which does not appear to cause appreciable harm, whether immediate or delayed for any period, in the target population. (From Lewis Dictionary of Toxicology, 1st ed)

2000(1991)

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