Trichloroethylene, a solvent used in a variety of industrial settings for more than 60 years, has caused adverse health effects on the central and peripheral nervous system, the skin, liver, kidney, and heart. Three men have shown relatively unusual manifestations secondary to exposure to trichloroethylene in degreasing operations in the jewelry industry. Toxic encephalopathy, hepatitis, and ca...

Trichloroethylene is an organic chemical that has been used in dry cleaning, for metal degreasing, and as a solvent for oils and resins. It has been shown to cause liver and kidney cancer in experimental animals. This article reviews over 80 published papers and letters on the cancer epidemiology of people exposed to trichloroethylene. Evidence of excess cancer incidence among occupational coho...

The effects of cross-substrate interaction to the performance of a gas-phase biotrickling filter for treating a mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including three structural heterologous in acetone, toluene, and trichloroethylene, were investigated. The biotrickling filter was inoculated with microbial consortium containing at least seven bacterial species utilizing either acetone or...

Ikeda, M., and Ohtsuji, H. (1972). Brit. J. industr. Med., 29, 99-104. A comparative study on the excretion of Fujiwara reaction-positive substances in urine of humans and rodents given trichloroor tetrachloro-derivatives of ethane and ethylene. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane, 1,1,2trichloroethane, 1,1,1 ,2-tetrachloroethane, 1,1 ,2,2-tetrachloroethane, trichloroethylene, and tetrachloroethylene were ad...

I N THEIR SEARCH for the toxic factor in trichloroethylene-extracted soybean oil meal which can induce fatal aplastic anemia in calves,”2 cattle,3 and horses,4 McKinney et al.5 synthesized S-( dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC). They reported that the oral administration of this compound to calves produced leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, a relative lymphocytosis and a hemorrhagic syndrome, conditio...

When trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and trichloroethanol (TCE) in the urine of human subjects, rabbits, rats, and guinea-pigs were determined by Seto and Schultze's (I956) method, the recovery of TCE, added to urine, varied widely from 8i 3% in guinea-pig urine to i6-2% in rat urine. To obtain the maximum recovery of added TCE, Seto and Schultze's method was further modified to give satisfactory re...