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The Risk assessment of environmental and human health hazards : a textbook of case studies /

Contributor(s): Paustenbach, Dennis J.
Publisher: New York : Wiley, c1989Description: xviii, 1155 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0471849987; 9780471849988 :.Subject(s): Health risk assessment | Environmental health | Pollution | Environmental Exposure | Environmental Health -- United States | Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects | Environmental Pollution -- prevention & control -- United States | Risk | Environmental health Risks AssessmentDDC classification: 363.7
Contents:
Introduction : a primer for conducting human or environmental health risk assessments ; A survey of health risk assessment / Dennis J. Paustenbach -- Risk, uncertainty, and causation : quantifying human health risks / Louis Anthony Cox, Jr., and Paolo F. Ricci -- Epidemiology in environmental risk assessment / Maxwell W. Layard and Abraham Silvers -- A time-to-response perspective on ethylene oxide's carcinogenicity / Robert L. Sielken, Jr. -- Use of physiological pharmacokinetics in cancer risk assessments : a study of methylene chloride / Richard H. Reitz ... [et al.] -- Superfund risk assessments : the process and past experience at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites / Craig Zamuda -- A comprehensive methodology for assessing the risks to humans and wildlife posed by contaminated soils : a case study involving dioxin / Dennis J. Paustenbach.
Hazard assessment of 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane in groundwater / James L. Bayard -- Evaluating the environmental safety of detergent chemicals : a case study of cationic surfactants / D.M. Woltering and W.E. Bishop -- Risk assessment for nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) / Robert L. Anderson and Carl L. Alden -- Assessment of the public health risks associated with the proposed excavation of a hazardous waste site / Susan M. Brett ... [et al.] -- A risk assessment of a former pesticide production facility / Thomas C. Marshall, Melissa Dubinksy, and Scott Boutwell -- The endangerment assessment for the Smuggler Mountain Site, Pitkin County, Colorado : a case study / Peter K. LaGoy, Ian C.T. Nisbet, and Carl O. Schultz.
Problems associated with the use of conservative assumptions in exposure and risk analysis / L. Daniel Maxim -- Risk analyses of buried wastes from electricity generation / Bernard L. Cohen -- Assessment of a waste site contaminated with chromium / Robert J. Golden and Nathan J. Karch -- Formaldehyde exposure and risk in mobile homes / R.G. Gammage and C.C. Travis -- Environmental lung cancer risk from radon daughter exposure / Naomi H. Harley -- Assessment of potential health hazards associated with PCDD and PCDF emissions from a municipal waste combustor / David Lipsky -- Assessing health risks in the workplace : a study of 2, 3, 7, 8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin / Hon-Wing Leung and Dennis J. Paustenbach.
A case study of developmental toxicity risk estimation based on animal data : the drug bendectin / E. Marshall Johnson -- Risk assessment methodologies for developmental and reproductive toxicants : a study of the glycol ethers / Dennis J. Paustenbach -- A physiologically based pharmacokinetic approach for assessing the cancer risk of tetrachloroethylene / Curtis C. Travis, Robin K. White, and Angela D. Arms -- The worker hazard posed by reentry into pesticide-treated foliage : development of safe reentry times, with emphasis on chlorthiophos and carbosulfan / J.B. Knaak, Yutaka Iwata, and K.T. Maddy -- Methylmercury in fish : assessment of risk for U.S. consumers / Linda Tollefson.
Summary: This volume discusses various aspects of risk assessment, including health promotion in the workplace, health surveillance programmes in industry, occupational exposure limits, unusual work schedules and measurement of worker exposure to hazards.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : a primer for conducting human or environmental health risk assessments ; A survey of health risk assessment / Dennis J. Paustenbach -- Risk, uncertainty, and causation : quantifying human health risks / Louis Anthony Cox, Jr., and Paolo F. Ricci -- Epidemiology in environmental risk assessment / Maxwell W. Layard and Abraham Silvers -- A time-to-response perspective on ethylene oxide's carcinogenicity / Robert L. Sielken, Jr. -- Use of physiological pharmacokinetics in cancer risk assessments : a study of methylene chloride / Richard H. Reitz ... [et al.] -- Superfund risk assessments : the process and past experience at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites / Craig Zamuda -- A comprehensive methodology for assessing the risks to humans and wildlife posed by contaminated soils : a case study involving dioxin / Dennis J. Paustenbach.

Hazard assessment of 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane in groundwater / James L. Bayard -- Evaluating the environmental safety of detergent chemicals : a case study of cationic surfactants / D.M. Woltering and W.E. Bishop -- Risk assessment for nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) / Robert L. Anderson and Carl L. Alden -- Assessment of the public health risks associated with the proposed excavation of a hazardous waste site / Susan M. Brett ... [et al.] -- A risk assessment of a former pesticide production facility / Thomas C. Marshall, Melissa Dubinksy, and Scott Boutwell -- The endangerment assessment for the Smuggler Mountain Site, Pitkin County, Colorado : a case study / Peter K. LaGoy, Ian C.T. Nisbet, and Carl O. Schultz.

Problems associated with the use of conservative assumptions in exposure and risk analysis / L. Daniel Maxim -- Risk analyses of buried wastes from electricity generation / Bernard L. Cohen -- Assessment of a waste site contaminated with chromium / Robert J. Golden and Nathan J. Karch -- Formaldehyde exposure and risk in mobile homes / R.G. Gammage and C.C. Travis -- Environmental lung cancer risk from radon daughter exposure / Naomi H. Harley -- Assessment of potential health hazards associated with PCDD and PCDF emissions from a municipal waste combustor / David Lipsky -- Assessing health risks in the workplace : a study of 2, 3, 7, 8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin / Hon-Wing Leung and Dennis J. Paustenbach.

A case study of developmental toxicity risk estimation based on animal data : the drug bendectin / E. Marshall Johnson -- Risk assessment methodologies for developmental and reproductive toxicants : a study of the glycol ethers / Dennis J. Paustenbach -- A physiologically based pharmacokinetic approach for assessing the cancer risk of tetrachloroethylene / Curtis C. Travis, Robin K. White, and Angela D. Arms -- The worker hazard posed by reentry into pesticide-treated foliage : development of safe reentry times, with emphasis on chlorthiophos and carbosulfan / J.B. Knaak, Yutaka Iwata, and K.T. Maddy -- Methylmercury in fish : assessment of risk for U.S. consumers / Linda Tollefson.

This volume discusses various aspects of risk assessment, including health promotion in the workplace, health surveillance programmes in industry, occupational exposure limits, unusual work schedules and measurement of worker exposure to hazards.

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