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Substance hazardous to the environment


Substance hazardous to the environment — substances characterized in an aqueous medium by the following indicators of acute toxicity:

the median lethal dose upon inhalation exposure to fish over a period of 96 hours is not more than 10 milligrams per liter;

the median concentration of poison causing a specific effect upon exposure to daphnia over a period of 48 hours is not more than 10 milligrams per liter;

the median inhibiting concentration upon exposure to algae over a period of 72 hours is not more than 10 milligrams per liter1;

  1. Federal Law No. 116-FZ dated July 21, 1997 "On Industrial Safety of Hazardous Production Facilities", as amended on December 8, 2020, Article 18, paragraph ж // RSZ RF. 1997. No. 30. Art. 3588. ↩

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