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==Perchlorate contamination (cleanup)==
==Perchlorate clean up==


There have been many attempts to eliminate perchlorate contamination. Current [[remediation]] technologies for perchlorate have negative downsides of extreme costs and difficulty in operation.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts.">{{cite web|title=Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts.|url=http://www.hazenandsawyer.com/news/eliminating-water-contamination-by-inorganic-disinfection-byproducts/|work=Hazen and Sawyer|publisher=Hazen and Sawyer}}</ref> Thus, there have been interests in developing systems that would offer economic and green alternatives to the established [[remediation]] technologies.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts."/> For example, the MIOX Product Development team of MIOX Corporation, by collaborating with Dr. Benjamin Stanford at Hazen and Sawyer, PC, will be endeavoring to develop electrochemical methods, which will remove inorganic [[disinfection by-products]] such as perchlorate and [[chlorate]] from water.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts."/>
There have been many attempts to eliminate perchlorate contamination. Current [[remediation]] technologies for perchlorate have negative downsides of extreme costs and difficulty in operation.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts.">{{cite web|title=Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts.|url=http://www.hazenandsawyer.com/news/eliminating-water-contamination-by-inorganic-disinfection-byproducts/|work=Hazen and Sawyer|publisher=Hazen and Sawyer}}</ref> Thus, there have been interests in developing systems that would offer economic and green alternatives to the established [[remediation]] technologies.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts."/> For example, the MIOX Product Development team of MIOX Corporation, by collaborating with Dr. Benjamin Stanford at Hazen and Sawyer, PC, will be endeavoring to develop electrochemical methods, which will remove inorganic [[disinfection by-products]] such as perchlorate and [[chlorate]] from water.<ref name="Eliminating Water Contamination by Inorganic Disinfection Byproducts."/>


===Ex situ and in situ treatments===
===Ex situ and in situ treatments===
Numerous technologies remove perchlorate, including ex situ and in situ treatments. Ex situ treatments include ion exchange using perchlorate-selective or nitrite-specific resins, [[bioremediation]] using packed-bed or fluidized-bed [[bioreactors]], and membrane technologies via [[electrodialysis]] and [[reverse osmosis]].<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate.">{{cite web|title=Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate.|url=http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/pdf/technical_fact_sheet_perchlorate.pdf|work=US EPA|publisher=US EPA}}</ref> In addition, ex situ technology of liquid phase carbon adsorption is employed, where granular activated carbon (GAC) is used in eliminating low levels of perchlorate and pretreatment may be required in arranging GAC for perchlorate elimination.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/> Furthermore, in situ treatments, such as [[bioremediation]] via perchlorate-selective microbes and permeable reactive barrier, are also being used to treat perchlorate.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/> In situ technology of [[phytoremediation]] could also be utilized, even though perchlorate [[phytoremediation]] mechanism is not fully founded yet.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/>
Numerous technologies remove perchlorate, including [[ex situ]] and [[in situ]] treatments. Ex situ treatments include ion exchange using perchlorate-selective or nitrite-specific resins, [[bioremediation]] using packed-bed or fluidized-bed [[bioreactors]], and membrane technologies via [[electrodialysis]] and [[reverse osmosis]].<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate.">{{cite web|title=Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate.|url=http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/pdf/technical_fact_sheet_perchlorate.pdf|work=US EPA|publisher=US EPA}}</ref> In addition, ex situ technology of liquid phase carbon adsorption is employed, where granular activated carbon (GAC) is used in eliminating low levels of perchlorate and pretreatment may be required in arranging GAC for perchlorate elimination.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/> Furthermore, in situ treatments, such as bioremediation via perchlorate-selective microbes and permeable reactive barrier, are also being used to treat perchlorate.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/> In situ technology of [[phytoremediation]] could also be utilized, even though perchlorate phytoremediation mechanism is not fully founded yet.<ref name="Technical Fact Sheet – Perchlorate."/>


== Health effects ==
== Health effects ==

Revision as of 05:36, 29 April 2014

Perchlorate
Skeletal model of perchlorate showing various dimensions
Ball-and-stick model of the perchlorate ion
Ball-and-stick model of the perchlorate ion
Spacefill model of perchlorate
Spacefill model of perchlorate
Names
Systematic IUPAC name
Perchlorate[1]
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
DrugBank
ECHA InfoCard 100.152.366 Edit this at Wikidata
2136
MeSH 180053
  • InChI=1S/ClHO4/c2-1(3,4)5/h(H,2,3,4,5)/p-1 checkY
    Key: VLTRZXGMWDSKGL-UHFFFAOYSA-M checkY
  • [O-][Cl](=O)(=O)=O
Properties
ClO4−
Molar mass 99.451 g mol−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Perchlorates are the salts derived from perchloric acid—in particular when referencing the polyatomic anions found in solution, perchlorate is often written with the formula ClO4−. Perchlorates are often produced by natural processes but can also be produced artificially. They are used extensively within the pyrotechnics industry, and ammonium perchlorate is also a component of solid rocket fuel. Lithium perchlorate, which decomposes exothermically to produce oxygen, is used in oxygen "candles" on spacecraft, submarines, and in other situations where a reliable backup oxygen supply is needed. Most perchlorates are soluble in water,[2] except for potassium perchlorate which has the lowest solubility of any alkali metal perchlorate (1.5 g in 100 mL of water at 25 °C). Perchlorate contamination in the environment has been extensively studied as has its effects on human health. Perchlorate has been linked to its negative influence on the thyroid.

Production and use

Perchlorate salts are produced industrially by the oxidation of solutions of sodium chlorate by electrolysis. This method is used to prepare sodium perchlorate. Four perchlorates are of primary commercial interest: ammonium perchlorate (NH4ClO4), perchloric acid (HClO4), potassium perchlorate (KClO4), and sodium perchlorate (NaClO4). The main application is for rocket fuel.[3] Perchlorate is commercially produced as solid salts of ammonium, sodium, and potassium cations; it is used as an oxidizer in solid propellants for rockets, missiles, fireworks, and certain munitions and used in the manufacture of matches. Potassium perchlorate has, in the past, been used therapeutically to treat hyperthyroidism resulting from Graves' disease.[4] Perchlorate is of concern because of uncertainties about toxicity and health effects at low levels in drinking water, impact on ecosystems, and indirect exposure pathways for humans due to accumulation in vegetables.[4]

Reactivity as an oxidant

The perchlorate ion is the least reactive oxidizer of the generalized chlorates. This appears to be a paradox, since higher oxidation numbers are expected to be progressively stronger oxidizers, and less stable. A table of reduction potentials of the four chlorates shows that, contrary to expectation, perchlorate is the weakest oxidant among the four in water.[5]

Ion Acidic reaction E° (V) Neutral/basic reaction E° (V)
Hypochlorite H+ + HOCl + e− → ½Cl2(g) + H2O 1.63 ClO− + H2O + 2e− → Cl− + 2OH− 0.89
Chlorite 3H+ + HOClO + 3e− → ½Cl2(g) + 2H2O 1.64 ClO2− + 2H2O + 4e− → Cl− + 4OH− 0.78
Chlorate 6H+ + ClO3− + 5e− → ½Cl2(g) + 3H2O 1.47 ClO3− + 3H2O + 6e− → Cl− + 6OH− 0.63
Perchlorate 8H+ + ClO4− + 7e− → ½Cl2(g) + 4H2O 1.42 ClO4− + 4H2O + 8e− → Cl− + 8OH− 0.56

These data show that the perchlorate and chlorate are stronger oxidizers in acidic conditions than in basic conditions.

Gas phase measurements of heats of reaction (which allow computation of ΔHf°) of various chlorine oxides do follow the expected trend wherein Cl2O7 exhibits the largest endothermic value of ΔHf° (238.1 kJ/mol) while Cl2O exhibits the lowest endothermic value of ΔHf° (80.3 kJ/mol).[6]

The central chlorine in the perchlorate anion is a closed shell atom and is well protected by the four oxygens. Hence, perchlorate reacts sluggishly. Most perchlorate compounds, especially salts of electropositive metals such as sodium perchlorate or potassium perchlorate, are inert and are slow to react with organic compounds. This property is useful in many applications, such as flares, where ignition is required to initiate a reaction. Ammonium perchlorate is however dangerous, such as in the PEPCON disaster, which destroyed a large-scale production plant for ammonium perchlorate.

Biological functions

Over 40 phylogenetically and metabolically diverse microorganisms capable of perchlorate reduction have been isolated since 1996, including members of the Proteobacteria as well as two recently identified Firmicutes, Moorella perchloratireducens and Sporomusa sp.[7]

Oxyanions of chlorine

Chlorine can assume oxidation states of −1, +1, +3, +5, or +7, an additional oxidation state of +4 is seen in the neutral compound chlorine dioxide ClO2, which has a similar structure. Several other chlorine oxides are also known.

Chlorine oxidation state −1 +1 +3 +5 +7
Name chloride hypochlorite chlorite chlorate perchlorate
Formula Cl- ClO− ClO2− ClO3− ClO4−
Structure The chloride ion The hypochlorite ion The chlorite ion The chlorate ion The perchlorate ion

Perchlorate Contamination in Environment

Natural source of perchlorate can be found in the nitrate deposit in Atacama Desert in northern Chile, but most of the detected perchlorate originates from disinfectants, bleaching agents, herbicides, and mostly from rocket propellants.[8] Perchlorate is the breakdown product between perchloric acid and its salt such as magnesium, sodium, potassium and ammonium perchlorate. Except for potassium perchlorate, perchlorate salts are soluble in water and dissociate into the perchlorate anion and the cation from the salt. Because perchlorate salts are readily soluble in both aqueous and non-aqueous solutions, when these salts are solvated, especially ammonium perchlorate, can undergo redox reactions and release gaseous products and release gaseous products and contaminate water and ground.[8]

Perchlorate Contamination in Drinking Water

Perchlorate is a toxic byproduct of the production of a rocket fuel and fireworks. Low levels of perchlorate have been detected in both drinking water and groundwater in 26 states in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2004, the chemical was also found in cow's milk in California with an average level of 1.3 parts per billion ("ppb" or µg/L), which may have entered the cows through feeding on crops that had exposure to water containing perchlorates.[9] According to the Impact Area Groundwater Study Program, the chemical has been detected at levels as high as 5 µg/L in Massachusetts, well over the state regulation of 2 µg/L.[10] Fireworks are also a source of perchlorate in lakes.[11]

The main source of perchlorate contamination comes from use of explosives such as fireworks and rocket propellants and other aerospace materials, and most of its detection comes from testing aerospace materials.[8] The removal and recovery of the perchlorate compounds in explosives and rocket propellants include high-pressure water washout, which generate aqueous ammonium perchlorate. Since 1998, perchlorate has been included in the contaminant candidate list (CCL), primarily due to its detection in California drinking water.[8] The source of perchlorate in California was can mainly be attributed to two manufacturers in Nevada which led to perchlorate release into Lake Mead and Colorado River, affecting its intact regions of Nevada, California and Arizona where water is used for consumption, irrigation and recreation.[8] Lake Mead is attributed as the source of 90% of perchlorate in Southern Nevada's drinking water and the sources of perchlorate in Lake Mead—and downstream in the Colorado River system—are two industrial complexes in the southeast portion of the Las Vegas Valley, where perchlorate is produced for industrial use. Perchlorate [12]Based on sampling, perchlorate is detected in 26 states and is affecting 20 million people, highest detection in Texas, southern California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, but intensive sampling of the Great Plains and other middle state regions can increase the number of affected regions.[8]

Perchlorate minerals

In some places, perchlorate is detected because of contamination from industrial sites that use or manufacture it. In other places, there is no clear source of perchlorate. In those areas it may be naturally occurring. Natural perchlorate on Earth was first identified in terrestrial nitrate deposits of the Atacama Desert in Chile as early as in the 1880s[13] and for a long time considered a unique perchlorate source. The perchlorate released from the historic use of Chilean nitrate based fertilizer which were imported to the U.S. by the hundreds of tons in the early 19th century can still be found in some groundwater sources of the United States.[14] Recent improvements in analytical sensitivity using ion chromatography based techniques have revealed a more widespread presence of natural perchlorate, particularly in subsoils of Southwest USA,[15] salt evaporites in California and Nevada,[16] Pleistocene groundwater in New Mexico,[17] and even present in extremely remote places such as Antarctica.[18] The data from these studies and others indicate that natural perchlorate is globally deposited on Earth with the subsequent accumulation and transport governed by the local hydrologic conditions.

Despite its importance to environmental contamination, the specific source and processes involved in natural perchlorate production still remain poorly understood. Recent laboratory experiments in conjunction with isotopic studies[19] have implied that perchlorate may be produced on Earth by the oxidation of chlorine species through pathways involving ozone or its photochemical products.[20] Other studies have suggested that perchlorate can also be created by lightning activated oxidation of chloride aerosols (e.g., chloride in sea salt sprays),[21] and ultraviolet or thermal oxidation of chlorine (e.g., bleach solutions used in swimming pools) in water.[22][23][24]

Perchlorate is an environmental contaminant usually associated with the storage, manufacture, and testing of solid rocket motors, which use ammonium perchlorate as an oxidizer.[25] However, real-life contamination of perchlorate has been focused in the use of fertilizer and its perchlorate release into ground water. Fertilizer leaves perchlorate anions to leak into the ground water and threatens the water supplies of many regions in the US.[25] One of the main sources of perchlorate contamination from fertilizer use was found to come from the fertilizer derived from Chilean caliche, because Chile has rich source of naturally occurring perchlorate anion.[26] Perchlorate in the solid fertilizer ranged from 0.7 to 2.0 mg g−1, variation of less than a factor of 3 and it is estimated that sodium nitrate fertilizers derived from Chilean caliche contain approximately 0.5–2 mg g−1 of perchlorate anion.[26] The direct ecological effect of perchlorate is not well known and its impact can be influenced by several factors including rainfall and irrigation, dilution, natural attenuation, soil adsorption, and bioavailability.[26] Quantification of perchlorate concentrations in fertilizer components via ion chromatography revealed that in horticultural fertilizer components contained perchlorate ranging between 0.1 and 0.46%.[27] Perchlorate concentration was the highest in Chilean nitrate, ranging from 3.3 to 3.98%.[27]

Perchlorate is water-soluble, exceedingly mobile in aqueous systems, and can persist for many decades under typical groundwater and surface water conditions.[27] Perchlorate has been found in the water resources of several western states, including Lake Mead and the Colorado River, ranging from 4 to16 μg/L.[27] This water is used for drinking, irrigation, and recreation for approximately half of the population in Arizona, California, and Nevada.[27] Currently, an action level of 18 μg/L has been adopted by several affected states.[27] The potential for groundwater and surface water contamination via agricultural runoff is an obvious concern, and so EPA and other agencies have been analyzing fertilizers to quantitatively determine perchlorate content.[27]

Perchlorate on Mars

In May 2008, the Wet Chemistry Laboratory (WCL) on board the 2007 Phoenix Mars Lander performed the first wet chemical analysis of martian soil. The analyses on three samples, two from the surface and one from depth of 5 cm, revealed a slightly alkaline soil and low levels of salts typically found on Earth. Unexpected though was the presence of ~ 0.6% by weight perchlorate (ClO4−), most likely as a Mg(ClO4)2 phase.[28] The salts formed from perchlorates discovered at the Phoenix landing site act as "anti-freeze" and will substantially lower the freezing point of water. Based on the temperature and pressure conditions on present-day Mars at the Phoenix lander site, conditions would allow a perchlorate salt solution to be present in liquid form for a few hours each day during the summer.[29]

The possibility that the perchlorate was a contaminant brought from Earth has been eliminated by several lines of evidence. The Phoenix retro-rockets used ultra pure hydrazine and launch propellants consisted of ammonium perchlorate. Sensors on board Phoenix found no traces of ammonium, and thus the perchlorate in the quantities present in all three soil samples is indigenous to the martian soil.

In 2006, a mechanism was proposed for the formation of perchlorates that is particularly relevant to the discovery of perchlorate at the Mars Phoenix lander site. It was shown that soils with high concentrations of chloride converted to perchlorate in the presence of sunlight and/or ultraviolet light. The conversion was reproduced in the lab using chloride-rich soils from Death Valley.[30] Other experiments have demonstrated the formation of perchlorate is associated with wide band gap semiconducting oxides.[31]

Further findings by the Mars Curiosity rover in 2012-2013 support perchlorates as being widespread,[32][33] and even inspired a Science article titled "Pesky Perchlorates All Over Mars".[34]

Perchlorate clean up

There have been many attempts to eliminate perchlorate contamination. Current remediation technologies for perchlorate have negative downsides of extreme costs and difficulty in operation.[35] Thus, there have been interests in developing systems that would offer economic and green alternatives to the established remediation technologies.[35] For example, the MIOX Product Development team of MIOX Corporation, by collaborating with Dr. Benjamin Stanford at Hazen and Sawyer, PC, will be endeavoring to develop electrochemical methods, which will remove inorganic disinfection by-products such as perchlorate and chlorate from water.[35]

Ex situ and in situ treatments

Numerous technologies remove perchlorate, including ex situ and in situ treatments. Ex situ treatments include ion exchange using perchlorate-selective or nitrite-specific resins, bioremediation using packed-bed or fluidized-bed bioreactors, and membrane technologies via electrodialysis and reverse osmosis.[36] In addition, ex situ technology of liquid phase carbon adsorption is employed, where granular activated carbon (GAC) is used in eliminating low levels of perchlorate and pretreatment may be required in arranging GAC for perchlorate elimination.[36] Furthermore, in situ treatments, such as bioremediation via perchlorate-selective microbes and permeable reactive barrier, are also being used to treat perchlorate.[36] In situ technology of phytoremediation could also be utilized, even though perchlorate phytoremediation mechanism is not fully founded yet.[36]

Health effects

Perchlorate is a potent competitive inhibitor of the thyroid sodium-iodide symporter.[37] Thus, it has been used to treat hyperthyroidism since the 1950s.[38] At very high doses (70,000–300,000 ppb) the administration of potassium perchlorate was considered the standard of care in the United States, and remains the approved pharmacologic intervention for many countries.

In large amounts perchlorate interferes with iodine uptake into the thyroid gland. In adults, the thyroid gland helps regulate the metabolism by releasing hormones, while in children, the thyroid helps in proper development. The NAS, in its 2005 report, Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion, emphasized that this effect, also known as Iodide Uptake Inhibition (IUI) is not an adverse health effect. However, in January 2008, California's Department of Toxic Substances Control stated that perchlorate is becoming a serious threat to human health and water resources.[39] In 2010, the Environmental Protectional Agency's (EPA) Office of the Inspector General determined that the EPA's own perchlorate reference dose of 24.5 parts per billion protects against all human biological effects from exposure. This finding was due to a significant shift in policy at the EPA in basing its risk assessment on non-adverse effects such as IUI instead of adverse effects. The Office of the Inspector General also found that because the EPA's perchlorate reference dose is conservative and protective of human health further reducing perchlorate exposure below the reference dose does not effectively lower risk.[40]

According to some groups, perchlorate affects only the thyroid gland. Because it is neither stored nor metabolized, any effects of perchlorate on the thyroid gland are fully reversible.[41] Less clear are the effects of perchlorate on fetuses, newborns, and children.

Some studies suggest that perchlorate has pulmonary toxic effects as well. Studies have been performed on rabbits where perchlorate has been injected intratracheally. The lung tissue was then removed and analyzed, and it was found that perchlorate injected lung tissue showed multiple adverse effects when compared to the control group that had been intratracheally injected with saline. These effects included inflammatory infiltrates, alveolar collapse, subpleural thickening, and lymphocyte proliferation.[42]

Toxic effects of perchlorate have also been studied in a survey of industrial plant workers who had been exposed to perchlorate, compared to a control group of other industrial plant workers who had no known exposure to perchlorate. After undergoing multiple tests, workers exposed to perchlorate were found to have a significant systolic blood pressure rise compared to the workers who were not exposed to perchlorate, as well as a significant decreased thyroid function compared to the control workers.[43]

A study involving healthy adult volunteers determined that at levels above 0.007 milligrams per kilogram per day (mg/(kg·d)), perchlorate can temporarily inhibit the thyroid gland's ability to absorb iodine from the bloodstream ("iodide uptake inhibition", thus perchlorate is a known goitrogen).[44] The EPA converted this dose into a reference dose of 0.0007 mg/(kg·d) by dividing this level by the standard intraspecies uncertainty factor of 10. The agency then calculated a "drinking water equivalent level" of 24.5 ppb by assuming a person weighs 70 kilograms (154 pounds) and consumes 2 liters (68 ounces) of drinking water per day over a lifetime.[45]

In 2006, a study by Blount, et al. reported a statistical association between environmental levels of perchlorate and changes in thyroid hormones of women with low iodine. The study authors were careful to point out that hormone levels in all the study subjects remained within normal ranges. The authors also indicated that they did not originally normalize their findings for creatinine, which would have essentially accounted for fluctuations in the concentrations of one-time urine samples like those used in this study.[46] When the Blount research was re-analyzed with the creatinine adjustment made, the study population limited to women of reproductive age, and results not shown in the original analysis, any remaining association between the results and perchlorate intake disappeared.[47] Soon after the revised Blount Study was released, NAS panelist Dr. Robert Utiger, a physician with the Harvard Institutes of Medicine, testified before Congress and stated: "I continue to believe that that reference dose, 0.007 milligrams per kilo (24.5 ppb,) which includes a factor of 10 to protect those who might be more vulnerable, is quite adequate."[48]

At a 2013 presentation of a previously unpublished study, it was suggested that environmental exposure to perchlorate in pregnant women with hypothyroidism may be associated with significant risk of low IQ in their children. [49]

Treatment of aplastic anemia

In the early 1960s, potassium perchlorate was implicated in the development of aplastic anemia—a condition where the bone marrow fails to produce new blood cells in sufficient quantity—in thirteen patients, seven of whom died.[50] Subsequent investigations have indicated the connection between administration of potassium perchlorate and development of aplastic anemia to be "equivocable at best", which means that the benefit of treatment, if it is the only known treatment, outweighs the risk, and it appeared a contaminant poisoned the 13.[51]

Regulatory issues in the U.S.

On February 11, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a "regulatory determination" that perchlorate meets the Safe Drinking Water Act criteria for regulation as a contaminant. The agency found that perchlorate may have an adverse effect on the health of persons and is known to occur in public water systems with a frequency and at levels that it presents a public health concern. As a result of EPA's regulatory determination, it began a process to determine what level of contamination is the appropriate level for regulation. The EPA prepared, as part of its regulatory determination, extensive responses to submitted public comments. The "docket ID" for EPA's regulatory action is EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0297 and can be found on regulations.gov.

Prior to issuance of its regulatory determination, the U.S. EPA issued a recommended Drinking Water Equivalent Level (DWEL) for perchlorate of 24.5 µg/L. In early 2006, EPA issued a "Cleanup Guidance" for this same amount. Both the DWEL and the Cleanup Guidance were based on a thorough review of the existing research by the National Academy of Science (NAS).[52] This followed numerous other studies, including one that suggested human breast milk had an average of 10.5 µg/L of perchlorate.[53] Both the Pentagon and some environmental groups have voiced questions about the NAS report, but no credible science has emerged to challenge the NAS findings. In February 2008, U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that U.S. toddlers on average are being exposed to more than half of the U.S. EPA's safe dose from food alone.[54] In March 2009, a Centers for Disease Control study found 15 brands of infant formula contaminated with perchlorate. Combined with existing perchlorate drinking water contamination, infants could be at risk for exposure to perchlorate above the levels considered safe by E.P.A.[55]

The US Environmental Protection Agency has issued substantial guidance and analysis concerning the impacts of perchlorate on the environment as well as drinking water.[1] California has also issued guidance regarding perchlorate use.[2]

Several states in the U.S. have enacted drinking water standard for perchlorate including Massachusetts in 2006. California's legislature enacted AB 826, the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act of 2003, requiring California's Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) to adopt regulations specifying best management practices for perchlorate and perchlorate-containing substances. The Perchlorate Best Management Practices were adopted on December 31, 2005, and became operative on July 1, 2006. [3] California issued drinking water standards in 2007. Several other states, including Arizona, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Texas have established non-enforceable, advisory levels for perchlorate.

In 2003, a federal district court in California found that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) applied because perchlorate is ignitable and therefore a "characteristic" hazardous waste. (see Castaic Lake Water Agency v. Whittaker, 272 F. Supp. 2d 1053, 1059–61 (C.D. Cal. 2003)).

One example of perchlorate related problems was found at the Olin Flare Facility, Morgan Hill, California—Perchlorate contamination beneath a former flare manufacturing plant in California was first discovered in 2000, several years after the plant had closed. The plant had used potassium perchlorate as one of the ingredients during its 40 years of operation. By late 2003, the state of California and the Santa Clara Valley Water District had confirmed a groundwater plume currently extending over nine miles through residential and agricultural communities.

The Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Santa Clara Valley Water District have engaged in a major outreach effort that has received extensive press and community response. A well testing program is underway for approximately 1,200 residential, municipal, and agricultural wells in the area. Large ion exchange treatment units are operating in three public water supply systems that include seven municipal wells where perchlorate has been detected. The potentially responsible parties, Olin Corporation and Standard Fuse Incorporated, are supplying bottled water to nearly 800 households with private wells. The Regional Water Quality Control Board is overseeing potentially responsible party (PRP) cleanup efforts.[4]

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