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The MAK Collection for Occupational Health and Safety

German Research Foundation – Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area
(MAK Commission)

ISSN 2509-2383



Dichlorfluormethan

MAK-Begründung, Nachtrag

  Andrea Hartwig1 (Vorsitz der Ständigen Senatskommission zur Prüfung gesundheitsschädlicher Arbeitsstoffe, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  MAK Commission2

1 Institut für Angewandte Biowissenschaften, Abteilung Lebensmittelchemie und Toxikologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Adenauerring 20a, Geb. 50.41, 76131 Karlsruhe, Deutschland
2 Ständige Senatskommission zur Prüfung gesundheitsschädlicher Arbeitsstoffe, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Deutschland

Abstract

The German Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (MAK Commission) reviewed its toxicological evaluation of dichlorofluormethane [75-43-4]. Dichlorofluoromethane and other partly halogenated chlorofluorocarbons are no longer approved in the European Union or in Germany. The derivation of the previous MAK value of dichlorofluoromethane does not correspond with the current approach of the Commission. There are no new studies that would allow the MAK value to be revised. The MAK Commission decided that a new evaluation is not of high priority. The MAK value and the other classifications are therefore suspended, and the substance is listed in the Section II c of the List of MAK and BAT Values for substances no longer evaluated.


Keywords

Dichlorofluoromethane, H-CFC, toxicity, ban of use