Chemical safety international reference manual
How safe is safe enough? We live in a world that is totally dependent on chemicals, be they agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, colorants - it is vitally important that we adopt a sustainable strategy for an environment containing some 11 million chemicals. This book provides a pragmatic guide to the ba...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Weinheim ; New York :
VCH
c1994.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705228506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chemical Safety; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Section 1: Introductory Chapters; 1. Global Chemical Pollution - The UNEP View; 2. Principles of Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals; Section 2: Chemical Safety Information; 3. Information Retrieval, Validation and Interpretation; 4. UNIDO/lNTIB: An Energy and Environment Information System for Developing Countries; 5. International and National Governmental Information Activities Concerning the Environmental Effects of Chemicals; 6. Accessing Health and Safety Information; Section 3: Chemical Hazard Assessment
- 7. Environmental Hazard Assessment of Chemicals8. Adverse Health Effects of Environmental Chemicals: Indian Scenario; 9. Parental Occupation and Childhood Cancer; 10. Comparative Genetic Toxicity of Some Pesticides; 11. Intake of Organochlorine Compounds and Levels in Population Groups; 12. Heavy Metal Dietary Intake: A European Comparison; 13. COMPACT and ENACT Procedures in Predicting the Formation of Reactive Intermediates by Cytochrome P450 Metabolism; Section 4: Monitoring; 14. Environmental Monitoring: Use of Luminescent Bacteria; 15. Cytogenetic Monitoring in Hungary
- Section 5: Risk Assessment and Management16. Identification of Carcinogenic Risks - Qualitative Aspects; 17. New Approaches for the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals; 18. Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Contrast and Comparison - International Perspectives; 19. Assessment of Pesticide Action on Human Health and the Environment in the Ukraine; 20. Some Organochlorine Pollutants in the Water Environment and their Influence on Drinking Water Quality; 21. Regional Contamination of Soil and Biota with Heavy Metals Following an Explosion of an Ammunition Stockpile near Oštarije, Croatia
- 22. Assessment and Management of Environmental Exposure to Colorants23. Fate of Pesticides in the Environment and the Quality of Drinking Water in Relation to Human Health; 24. Chlororganic Pesticides and Atrazine in the Environment of Lithuania: Retrospective Analysis and Management Evaluation; 25. Management of Halide Mined Water Discharges; Section 6: Safety; 26. Safety in the Use of Chemicals at the Workplace; 27. Poisoning and Safety; 28. Some Information Regarding Chemical Safety Both in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in China; 29. Environmental Chemical Safety
- 30. Approaches to Identifying and Adverse Health Effects of Chemicals in UseSection 7: Legal Aspects; 31. Liability for Dangerous Industrial Activities and Damage to the Environment: Where Do We Stand After the Council of Europe Convention and the Commission Green Paper?; 32. Safety and Environmental Stewardship in the Single Market; 33. Chemical Regulation in Europe and the United States: International Implications; 34. Worldwide Regulatory Controls to Ensure Safety of Chemicals; 35. Epilogue; Annex 1 Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE)
- Annex 2 OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals
