Environmental toxicants: human exposures and their health effects

Description

"Environmental Toxicants: Human Exposures and Their Health Effects, 4th Edition is an invaluable reference tool that critically reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents in the ambient environment. The latest edition provides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers. Toxic substances in the general environment can produce adverse health effects among large numbers of people. The effects are usually sub-clinical unless cumulative changes lead to chronic effects after long-term exposure, causing a need for identification and risk assessment"--;Perspectives on individual and community risk -- Reducing risks : an environmental engineering perspective -- Clinical perspective on respiratory toxicology -- Industrial perspectives : translating the knowledge base into corporate policies, programs, and practices for health protection -- Food constituents and contaminants -- Acrolein and unsaturated aldehydes -- Chemical weapons -- Ambient air particulate matter -- Arsenic -- Asbestos and other mineral and vitreous fibers -- Carbon monoxide -- Chromium -- Diesel exhaust and lung cancer risk -- Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- Formaldehyde and other saturated aldehydes -- Lead and compounds -- Mercury -- Cardiopulmonary effects of nanomaterials -- Nitrogen oxides -- Ozone -- Pesticides -- Radon and lung cancer -- Secondhand tobacco smoke -- Sulfur oxides (sox) -- so2, h2so4, nh4hso4, and (nh4)2so -- World Trade Center (WTC) dust.