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Term	Acronym	Vocabulary	Vocabulary Type	Definitions
health advisory		Safe Drinking Water Act Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A USEPA document that provides guidance and information on contaminants that can affect human health and that may occur in drinking water.
Health Advisory		Drinking Water Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: An EPA document that provides guidance and information on contaminants that can affect human health and that may occur in drinking water, but which EPA does not currently regulate in drinking water.
Health Advisory	HA	Pesticides Reregistration Glossary	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: The HA values are used as informal guidance to municipalities and other organizations when emergency spills or contamination situations occur.
Health Advisory	HA		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Health Advisory	HA		Abbreviation and Acronym List
Health Advisory Level		Terms of Environment	Glossary and Key Word List	Definition: A non-regulatory health-based reference level of chemical traces (usually in ppm) in drinking water at which there are no adverse health risks when ingested over various periods of time. Such levels are established for one day, 10 days, long-term and life-time exposure periods. They contain a wide margin of safety.
Health Advisory		EPA EV-Research-Research Products	Taxonomy	Definition 1: EPA document that provides guidance and information on contaminants that can affect human health and that may occur in drinking water, but which EPA does not currently regulate in drinking water. [Drinking Water Glossary 2009] Definition 2: Provides information on contaminants that can cause human health effects and are known or anticipated to occur in drinking water. EPA's health advisories are non-enforceable and non-regulatory and provide technical information to states agencies and other public health officials on health effects, analytical methodologies, and treatment technologies associated with drinking water contamination. EPA’s health advisory level for PFOA and PFOS offers a margin of protection for all Americans throughout their life from adverse health effects resulting from exposure to PFOA and PFOS in drinking water.[EPA Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOA and PFOS at https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking-water-health-advisories-pfoa-and-pfos]

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