Non-CCA Wood Preservatives

At NPIC our goal is to promote informed decision-making based on sound science. In response to several inquiries about the potential health concerns associated with treated wood, NPIC presents this collection of science-based articles, fact-sheets and resources.

This page represents one subtopic, other topics are available at the main index page.

For information concerning CCA treated wood (wood treated with copper, chromium and arsenic) please see our CCA Treated Wood page.

If you have questions about this, or any pesticide-related topic, please call NPIC at 1-800-858-7378 (seven days per week, 6:30am-4:30pm PST), or send an email to npic@ace.orst.edu.

Pentachlorophenol

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• Ecological Effects and Environmental Risk Characterization
• Epidemiology: Health Effects of Pentachlorophenol (PCP) in Humans
• Human Risk Characteristics
• Environmental Fate
• Response to Cancel Certain Pentachlorophenol (PCP) Wood Preservative Products
• Pentachlorophenol and its Use as a wood Preservative
• Preliminary Risk Assessment Pentachlorophenol ("Penta"), HCB and Dioxin: Questions and Answers

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

• ToxFAQs for Pentachlorophenol
• Toxicological Profile for Pentachlorophenol

International Program On Chemical Safety (INCHEM)

• Pentachlorophenol

Extension Toxicology Network

• Pesticide Information Profile, Pentachlorophenol (PCP)

Recent Studies

• The Pesticide Manual, Thirteenth Edition, CDS Tomlin; 2003, 623 Pentachlorophenol (Not Available Online)
• Effects of pentachlorophenol on the reproduction of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes); Zha et al. 2006.

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