A Survey of Information Relevant to Occupational Health Standards for Hydrazines

This report summarizes Air Force use of hydrazines; exposure potential, experience and control techniques; instrumentation requirements, capabilities and limitations: spill management techniques: and management and control of acute exposures. It contains a review of American, German, Swedish, Russian and international agency for research on cancer workplace air standards for hydrazines and related compounds, and a selective literature review of recent important information deemed useful relative to establishing health standards for environmental exposure to the hydrazines, nitrosamines, nitrosomethylureas and nitrosomethylurethane. In addition, there is an appendix containing a comprehensive list of subject references on toxicity and biological effects of the hydrazines and their derivatives. (Author)