Guidance

Tetrachloroethylene: incident management and toxicology

Information on tetrachloroethylene (also known as tetrachloroethene), for use in responding to chemical incidents.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2014
• Last updated: 2 July 2025
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  1. 2 July 2025

     The content of the Incident Management document has been updated. The General Information and Toxicological Overview pages have undergone a HTML format update – the content within these pages has remained unchanged.

  2. 16 November 2017

     Updated general information document.

  3. 13 June 2017

     Updated incident management.

  4. 16 February 2016

     Updated toxicological overview.

  5. 1 July 2014

     First published.

Documents

Tetrachloroethylene: general information

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Tetrachloroethylene: toxicological overview

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Tetrachloroethylene: incident management

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Details

These documents provide information on the health effects of exposure, the chemical’s toxicity and material for responding to a chemical incident.

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