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Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds: Executive summary
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds: Site-specific assessment procedures
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds
Author: Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-like Compounds
Author: Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309133882
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented a comprehensive review of the scientific literature in its 2003 draft reassessment of the risks of dioxin, the agency did not sufficiently quantify the uncertainties and variabilities associated with the risks, nor did it adequately justify the assumptions used to estimate them, according to this new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report recommended that EPA re-estimate the risks using several different assumptions and better communicate the uncertainties in those estimates. The agency also should explain more clearly how it selects both the data upon which the reassessment is based and the methods used to analyze them.
Environmental Health Risks
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dioxins
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Environmental Health Risks
Author: David G. WoodPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756725280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Some dioxins, which are chemical compounds that share certain structural and biological characteristics, have been linked to adverse human health effects, including cancer. 1 Often the byproducts of combustion and industrial processes, complex mixtures of dioxins enter the food chain and human diet through emissions into the air that settle on soil, plants, and water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other entities, such as the World Health Organization, began assessing the potential human health risks of dioxins in the 1970s, when animal studies on one of them 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, or TCDD showed it to be the most potent cancer-causing chemical studied to date. EPAs initial assessment of dioxins was published in 1985. Since that time, there have been major advances in the scientific understanding of dioxin toxicity and significant new studies on dioxins potential adverse health effects. As a result, in 1991 EPA decided to conduct a reassessment of the health risks of exposure to dioxins. A draft of this reassessment was reviewed by a scientific peer review panel in 1995, and three panels reviewed key segments of later drafts in 1997 and 2000.