Dioxin--the Impact on Human Health
Title | Dioxin--the Impact on Human Health PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply
Title | Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2003-12-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309089611 |
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, or DLCs, are found throughout the environment, in soil, water, and air. People are exposed to these unintentional environmental contaminants primarily through the food supply, although at low levels, particularly by eating animal fat in meat, dairy products, and fish. While the amount of DLCs in the environment has declined since the late 1970s, the public continues to be concerned about the safety of the food supply and the potential adverse health effects of DLC exposure, especially in groups such as developing fetuses and infants, who are more sensitive to the toxic effects of these compounds. Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure, recommends policy options to reduce exposure to these contaminants while considering how implementing these options could both reduce health risks and affect nutrition, particularly in sensitive and highly exposed groups, if dietary changes are suggested.
Waste Incineration and Public Health
Title | Waste Incineration and Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2000-10-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030906371X |
Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.
Dioxin
Title | Dioxin PDF eBook |
Author | Sudarshan Kurwadkar |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2020-01-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1351693441 |
Dioxin – Environmental Fate and Health/Ecological Consequences offers a unique, and comprehensive coverage of dioxins and their congeners once they are released to the environment. The book provides readers with a systematic understanding of past and emerging sources of dioxins, current dioxins inventories and historical trends, fate and long-range transboundary atmospheric transport, human health, and ecological risk and regulatory perspective. Providing an excellent analysis of dioxin exposure through the food chain and impact on human health, it also documents the environmental implications of dioxins on ecological flora and fauna. The book offers readers a holistic understanding about dioxins, their atmospheric fate and transport, distribution in various environmental matrices and various routes and exposure pathways through which human beings are exposed to this persistent organic pollutant. It further offers an insight into the toxicological profile and mechanistic analysis of the onset of cancer, remediation technologies, and existing regulatory framework to deal with the problems associated with dioxins. The book will serve as an excellent resource to environmental professionals, particularly environmental toxicologists, environmental health professionals, remediation engineers, environmental regulatory agencies, policymakers, and environmental law professionals.
Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds
Title | Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2006-10-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309133882 |
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
The Health Risks of Dioxin
Title | The Health Risks of Dioxin PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
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Dioxin
Title | Dioxin PDF eBook |
Author | Michael M. Simpson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Dioxins |
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