Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE)

July 2006

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Table of Contents

• 1.0 Guideline
• 2.0 Executive summary
  • 2.1 Health effects and aesthetic considerations
  • 2.2 Exposure
  • 2.3 Analysis and treatment
• 3.0 Identity, use and sources in the environment
• 4.0 Exposure
• 5.0 Analytical methods
• 6.0 Treatment technology
  • 6.1 Municipal-scale
    • 6.1.1 Emerging municipal-scale treatment technologies
  • 6.2 Residential-scale
• 7.0 Kinetics and metabolism
• 8.0 Health effects
  • 8.1 Effects in humans
  • 8.2 Effects on experimental animals and in vitro
    • 8.2.1 Acute toxicity
    • 8.2.2 Short-term exposure
    • 8.2.3 Long-term exposure and carcinogenicity
    • 8.2.4 Mutagenicity/genotoxicity
    • 8.2.5 Reproductive and developmental toxicity
    • 8.2.6 Mode of action
• 9.0 Aesthetic considerations
• 10.0 Classification and assessment
• 11.0 Rationale
• 12.0 References
• Appendix A: List of acronyms