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Summary The risk assessment approach described in this monograph applies only to essential trace elements (ETEs) involved in human health and not to non-essential elements. The purpose of this...

Scientific knowledge in recent years has demonstrated that children are a vulnerable population subgroup with special susceptibilities and unique exposures to environmental factors that have...

Intended as a tool for use by public health officials, research and regulatory scientists and risk managers, this publication seeks to provide a scientific framework for the use and interpretation of...

A state-of-the-art review of methods and procedures for assessing the risks to human health posed by environmental chemicals. Addressed to regulatory authorities, risk managers and other...

A review of the toxicological and chemical characteristics of food additives, testing of chemicals in food and the evaluation of test results.Author: IpcsPublisher: World Health...

Explains the principles, concepts, and definitions used by the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) when assessing toxicological data on pesticide residues in food and establishing...

Exposures in the printing industry are assessed according to their occurrence in printing ink manufacture and in printing operations such as letterpress lithography flexography gravure and...

Cet ouvrage, qui en est ? sa troisi?me ?dition r?vis?e, est un guide pratique destin? ? former les agents de sant? ? ?valuer la diarrh?e et la d?shydratation, ? traiter les cas efficacement et ?...

A practical guide to the many simple things that can be done to help children with cerebral palsy grow and develop in the best possible way. Addressed to the mid-level rehabilitation worker, the...

Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by the production, use and waste disposal of 1-propanol, a colourless, highly flammable liquid used primarily as a multi-purpose solvent...

Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by the production and use of 2-propanol, a liquid widely used as a low-cost solvent in industry and in the home. Because of its cooling,...

A multidisciplinary effort to determine the extent to which psychosocial factors peculiar to different occupational environments can influence the health of workers and managers. Wide-ranging in its...

Alerts the medical and public health professions to the severe risks of morbidity and mortality posed by human consumption of plants, including cereals and herbal medicines, containing pyrrolizidine...

Draws together twenty-two WHO guidelines relevant to the quality assurance and control of pharmaceutical products. Most of these guidelines have appeared as annexes in various reports of the WHO...

What this workbook aims to achieve: Increase awareness, interest and understanding of quality assurance issues. Enable radiographers to establish and continue to carry out an effective quality...

This volume assesses formal methods for the quantitative estimation and prediction of human cancer risks. Quantitative estimates of cancer risk can be expressed in different ways. In some cases...

This book provides a collection of ten protocols for conducting rapid health assessments in the immediate aftermath of different types of emergencies. Noting the vital importance of rapid and...

Elaborates policies that can help European countries improve health and shape a better future through the promotion of goal-directed research in the biomedical, behavioural, and social sciences...

Evaluates the risks to human health posed by the consumption of food contaminated with ochratoxins, trichothecenes, or ergot. Health effects possibly linked to these mycotoxins range from...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by sex hormonesAuthor: The International Agency for Research onPublisher: World Health OrganizationPublication Date: 27030Number of Pages: 248...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risks to humans posed by exposure to crystalline and amorphous silica, some silicates (palygorskite, sepiolite, wollastonite, and zeolites other than erionite), coal dust,...

Evaluates carcinogenic risks associated with human exposure to solar radiation and to ultraviolet radiation from medical and cosmetic devices general illumination and industrial sources. The main...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk of some Anti-Thyroid and Related Substances, Nitrofurans and Industrial Chemicals.Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health OrganizationPublication...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risks to humans posed by the use of four antiretroviral agents four DNA topoisomerase II inhibitors used in the treatment of cancer and an additional three pharmaceutical...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk of some Aromatic Azo Compounds.Author: The International Agency for Research onPublisher: World Health OrganizationPublication Date: 27395Number of Pages: 357...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by exposure to Some Aziridines, N-, S- and O-Mustards and Selenium.Author: The International Agency for Research onPublisher: World Health...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by 20 individual compounds and three groups of compounds (cyclamates, saccharin and its salts, and nitrilotriacetic acid and its salts) that are known...

This thirty-ninth volume of IARC Monographs comprises considerations of a number of industrial chemicals used in the production of plastics and elastomers; some of the compounds are also used in...

A well-researched report from a working group of 23 experts from 13 countries, convened to evaluate the evidence of carcinogenicity of drinking-water disinfectants and of arsenic (mostly naturally...

Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by exposure to selected flame retardants and other chemicals used in the textile manufacturing industry. Agents were selected for evaluation on the...