Pentachlorophenol (PCP)

Safety Summary

Regulatory Status

Food Safety Thresholds (Baby Food)

Governance status, not safety advice — see the full coverage-gap & legal-force matrix.

Sources

These citations are the ones recorded for the human adult context.

• IARC Monographs Volume 117: Some Chemicals Used as Solvents and in Polymer Manufacture — Pentachlorophenol Group 1 (non-Hodgkin lymphoma; hepatocellular carcinoma); wood preservative occupational exposure; TCHQ genotoxic metabolite (2019) REGULATORY · 2019
• § 1910.1000 Air contaminants. REGULATORY
• PROPOSITION 65 LIST OF CARCINOGENS OR REPRODUCTIVE TOXICANTS REGULATORY · 2026
• IARC Monographs, List of Classifications REGULATORY · 2026
• Pentachlorophenol | CASRN 87-86-5 | DTXSID7021106 | IRIS | US EPA, ORD REGULATORY
• RED for Pentachlorophenol, EPA 739-R-08-008, Sep 25 2008 (NEPIS P1002CL2) REGULATORY
• ECHA Annex VI to CLP: the unofficial Excel table (up to and including the 23rd ATP) (secondary: unofficial by its own statement) REGULATORY
• where to look PubChem: Toxicity section (CID 992) PUBCHEM
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards: Pentachlorophenol (npgd0484) REGULATORY
• Industry Code of Practice on Chemicals Classification and Hazard Communication (DOSH Malaysia) REGULATORY
• Stockholm Convention: All POPs (the Convention's own list of listed chemicals, Annexes A, B and C) REGULATORY
• Stockholm Convention: The New POPs (the Convention's own index of listed chemicals) REGULATORY
• TEDX List of Potential Endocrine Disruptors, full export (Excel from the publisher's own search, operator-saved 2026-10-08; list last updated September 2018) REFERENCE_DATABASE
• EPA CompTox CTX API: predicted properties for DTXSID7021106 (Pentachlorophenol (PCP)) REFERENCE

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