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ATSDR - Public Health Statement: 2-Hexanone Page 1 of 5 1 AATSDR Search j Index I Home Glossary I Contact Us AGENCY FOR TOM SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY CONTENTS September 1992 1.^ What is 2-hexanone? Public Health Statement 1.2 How might I be for exposed to 2-hexanone? 2-Hexanone 13 How can 2-hexanone enter and leave my body? CAS# 591-78-6 1.4 How can 2-hexanone affect my health? This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the 1.5 is there a medical test Toxicological Profile for 2-hexanone. It is one in a series of to determine whether I Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and have been exposed to 2- their health effects. A shorter version, the TuxFAQs"-M, is also hexanone? available. This information is important because this 1.6 What substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any recommendations has the hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how federal government made exposedersonal traits and habits, and whether other to protect human health? you are ex p � p 1.7 Where can I get more chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR information? Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. References RELATED RESOURCES This Statement was prepared to give you information about 2- ToxFAQTM M26k hexanone and to emphasize the human health effects that may ToxFAQT" en �28k result from exposure to it. The Environmental Protection Agency Espanol (EPA) has identified 1,177 sites on its National Priorities List Public Health 'n22k (NPL). 2-Hexanone has been found in at least 15 of these sites. Statement However, we do not know how many of the 1,177 NPL sites have Toxicological been evaluated for 2-hexanone. As EPA evaluates more sites, the Profile �I.3MB number of sites at which 2-hexanone is found may change. This A-Z INDEX information is important for you to know because 2-hexan0ne may A B C D E cause harmful health effects and because these sites are potential F G H I J K or actual sources of human exposure to 2-hexanone. L M N 0 P QRSTU V W X Y Z When a chemical is released from a large area, such as an ATSDR RESOURCES industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it ToxFAQsT"' enters the environment as a chemical emission. This emission, ToxFAQsT" en Espanol which is also called a release, does not always lead to exposure. Public Health Statements You can be exposed to a chemical only when you come into Toxicological Profiles contact with the chemical. You may be exposed to it in the environment by breathing, eating, or drinking substances Minimum Risk.Levels MMGs containing the chemical or from skin contact with it. MHMls If you are exposed to a hazardous chemical such as 2-hexanone, Interaction Profiles several factors will determine whether harmful health effects will Priority list of Hazardous occur and what the type and severity of those health effects will Substances be. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how Division of Toxicology long), the route or pathway by which you are exposed (breathing, eating, drinking, or skin contact), the other chemicals to which you http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs44.html 4/5/2007