Petroleum High Volume Production

This website contains all the work completed by the Petroleum HPV Testing Group in response to US EPA's HPV Chemical Challenge Program.

Petroleum Substances & Categories

The petroleum substances sponsored in the HPV Challenge Program are organized and evaluated according to product categories. The categories are typically organized around properties and refinery processes such as similar boiling ranges, similar process history, or similar end-uses.

Aromatic Extracts

All Category Documents

Waxes

Testing Group Overview	HPV Challenge Overview	PAC Project Overview
The Petroleum HPV Testing Group was formed with the primary goal of making human health and ecological hazard information on petroleum HPV substance publically available. Read More	High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals are classified as those chemicals produced or imported in the United States in quantities of 1 million pounds or more per year. In 1998, the HPV Challenge Program was launched in order to collect and make publically available basic hazard data for HPV chemicals. Read More	The primary objective of the Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC) Project was to investigate the potential relationship(s) between the PAC content of petroleum substances and their human health toxicity. A secondary objective was to determine whether an association, could be used to predict the toxicity of untested petroleum substances. Read More