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United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. ;
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This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about ethion. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. Exposure to ethion happens mostly from skin contact or breathing contaminated air, but may also occur from eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. Ethion affects the function of the central nervous system and at high doses can cause nausea, blurring or dimness of vision, muscle tremors, and labored breathing. Ethion has been found in at least 9 of 1,577 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). tfacts152.pdf
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Environmental Pollutants
Ethion/toxicity
Insecticides
Insecticides, Organophosphate
Organothiophosphorus Compounds

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ToxFAQs ;
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Pamphlet (or booklet) ;
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Fact Sheet ;
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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