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Health Hazards from New Environmental Pollutants
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Book : Health Hazards from New Environmental Pollutants
Language : English Library : Health-Safety-Environment Publish Place : Geneva Volume : 586 Publish Date : 00 1976 Publisher : World Health Organization WHO Book Type : Report Book Number : 2877 |
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INDEX
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Forecasting in environmental health
3.1 Technology forecasting
3.2 Chemical structure and biological activity
3.3 Assessment of the behaviour of chemicals in the environment
4. Methods of identifying new or potential environmental pollutants and hazards
4.1 Registration of new chemicals
4.2 Toxicological data banks
4.3 Rapid laboratory bioassay systems
4.3.1 Mutagenicity
4.3.2 Carcinogenicity
4.3.3 Teratogenicity
4.3.4 Screening for ecological effects
4.4 Warning systems for adverse health effects
4.4.1 Health statistics
4.4.2 Occupational health hazards
4.4.3 Special environmental surveys of chemicals
4.4.4 Ecological surveillance
4.4.5 Epidemiological surveillance
5. Some topics that should be given priority attention
5.1 Environmental health impact of power production and use
5.2 Technology of chemicals and materials
5.2.1 Plastics and plasticizers
5.2.2 Fire retardants
5.2.3 Metals
5.2.4 Photosensitizers
5.2.5 Pesticides
6. Recommendations
Acknowledgements
Annex 1. Toxicological data banks and registers of toxic chemicals
Annex 2. Health and environmental hazards associated with alternative sources of power
Annex 3. Plasticizers
Annex 4. Fire retardants and combustion products
Annex 5. Uses for less well known elements and new uses for familiar elements Annex 6. Photosensitizers
Annex 7. Some recent advances in chemical pest control
