Polychlorinated Dibenzo-P-Dioxins and -Furans (Pcdds/Pcdfs): Sources and Environmental Impact, Epidemiology, Mechanisms of Action, Health Risks

ISBN-13: 9783642705588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 145 str.

Stephen Safe; Otto Hutzinger; Thomas A. Hill

Opis

Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins and -furans (PCDDs and PCDFs) are potent environmental toxins. Environmental exposures to these compounds in part-per-billion (ppb) and part-per-trillion (ppt) concentrations are of particular interest. These exposures may arise from bleached paper products, paper production process sludge, effluent waste water from paper plants, consumption of food and water from contaminated sources and contact to paper products.

Spis treści

1 PCDDs and PCDFs: Sources and Environmental Impact.- 2 UAREP-Report on Health Aspects of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans (PCDFs).- 2.1 Epidemiology.- 2.2 Mechanism of Action.- 2.3 Characterization of Human Health Risks.- 3 Subject Index.