HEALTH CONSULTATION
SPARTAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
WYOMING, KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN
Figure 1. Spartan Chemical Company Superfund Site
Michigan Department of Community Health
John Filpus, Environmental Engineer
Robin Freer, Resource Specialist
James Bedford, Environmental Toxicologist
Brendan Boyle, Principal Investigator
ATSDR Regional Representative
Louise Fabinski
Regional Services, Region V
Office of the Assistant Administrator
ATSDR Technical Project Officer
William Greim
Division of Health Assessment and Consultation
Superfund Site Assessment Branch
The Spartan Chemical Company Health Consultation was prepared by the Michigan Department of Community Health under a cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). It is in accordance with approved methodology and procedures existing at the time the health consultation was initiated.
William Greim
Technical Project Officer, SPS, SSAB, DHAC
The Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, ATSDR, has reviewed this health consultation and concurs with its findings.
Richard Gillig
Chief, SPS, SSAB, DHAC, ATSDR
1. As of October 1, 1995, the environmental protection and regulation functions and related
staff of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) were transferred to the newly-formed Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). Operations continued without
interruption.
2. On April 1, 1996, the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH) Division of Health
Risk Assessment (DHRA) was absorbed into the newly-formed Michigan Department of
Community Health (MDCH). The site history and background section of this document uses the
departmental identifiers in effect at the time of the events.
3. The U.S. EPA Reference Concentrations (RfCs), U.S. EPA Reference Doses (RfDs), and
ATSDR Minimum Risk Levels (MRLs) are concentrations or exposure doses that are assumed to
pose no hazard of adverse human health effects, calculated from experimental data multiplied by
uncertainty factors to allow for interspecies and individual variation.
4. Pica behavior is an abnormal consumption of non-food materials, such as soil, most often
seen in children under 5 years of age.
