ABSTRACT
CHAPTER 17 Toxicology MICHAEL N. PINKERTON Pinkerton International, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiana ANN M. PETTIGREW Ethyl Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1 INTRODUCTION There is a limited amount of information in the open literature on the toxicology of alpha olefins. The majority of the data cited in this review was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Manufacturers of alpha olefins submitted these data in 1984 in response to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Data Call In of health effects data on hexene, octene, decene, and dodecene.
