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Drinking Water Advisory:Consumer Acceptability Adviceand Health Effects Analysison Sodium
 
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Drinking Water Advisory:Consumer Acceptability Advice andHealth Effects Analysis on Sodium
Prepared for:U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Water (4304T)Health and Ecological Criteria DivisionWashington, DC 20460www.epa.gov/safewater/ccl/pdf/sodium.pdf EPA 822-R-03-006February 2003
 
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FOREWORD
The Drinking Water Advisory Program sponsored by the Health and Ecological Criteria Divisionof the Office of Science and Technology (OST), Office of Water (OW), provides information onthe health and organoleptic (taste, odor, etc.) effects of contaminants in drinking water. TheDrinking Water Advisory documents are a component of the OW Health Advisory program.Drinking Water Advisories differ from Health Advisories because of their focus on estheticproperties (taste, odor, color) of drinking water. A Drinking Water Advisory is prepared whenthe adverse contaminants cause adverse taste and odor influences at concentrations lower thanthose for possible health effects.A Drinking Water Advisory is not an enforceable standard for action. However, it describesnonregulatory concentrations of the contaminant in water that are expected to be without adverseeffects on both health and esthetics. Both Health Advisories and Drinking Water Advisoriesserve as informal technical guidance to assist Federal, State and local officials responsible forprotecting public health when emergency spills or contamination situations occur. They are notto be construed as legally enforceable Federal standards. They are subject to change as newinformation becomes available. This draft supersedes any previous draft advisories for thischemical.The Advisory discusses the limitations of the current database for estimating a risk level forsodium in drinking water and characterizes the hazards associated with exposure. The documentwas peer reviewed internally and externally by experts in the field. External peer reviewers wereas follows:Paul E. Brubaker, Ph.D.—Brubaker Associates, New JerseyJanet L. Greger, Ph.D.—University of Wisconsin - Madison (Nutritional ScienceDepartment and Environmental Toxicology Program)Jeanne Freeland-Graves, Ph.D.—The University of Texas at Austin (NutritionalSciences)
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