Guidance

Tetrachloroethylene: incident management and toxicology

Information on tetrachloroethylene (also known as tetrachloroethene), for use in responding to chemical incidents.

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These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure, the chemical’s toxicity and material for responding to a chemical incident.

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Updates to this page

Published 1 July 2014
Last updated 2 July 2025 show all updates
  1. The content of the Incident Management document has been updated. The General Information and Toxicological Overview pages have undergone a HTML format update – the content within these pages has remained unchanged.

  2. Updated general information document.

  3. Updated incident management.

  4. Updated toxicological overview.

  5. First published.

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