Aromatic Amines Asbestos

The best human studies on chemicals and cancer manage to avoid the problems Feinstein described and also measure differences in cancer rates of greater than 1 percent (Lave and Ennever 1990). The most famous of those studies examined the relationship between cigarette consumption and cancer in British physicians (Doll and Hill 1964 Doll and Peto 1978). Researchers also have calculated solid dose-response relationships for coke-oven emissions, aromatic amines, aflatoxin, vinyl chloride, radiation (including radon), and asbestos (Zeise, Wilson, and Crouch 1987, 275-89). ... 

In the Part B of this text several new entries have been inducted. Many compounds are entered in the tables under miscellaneous substances in several chapters. Molybdenum has been added as a subchapter into Metals, Toxic. A number of chapters of the last edition have been fully revised in this edition. Notable among them are, Nerve Gases Dioxin and Related Compounds Metals, Toxic Pesticides, Organochlorine-, Organophosphorus-, Carbamates-, and Chlo-rophenoxy Acids- Amines, Aromatic Isocyanates, Organic Halogenated Hydrocarbons Hydrocarbons, Aromatics Asbestos Nitriles and Nitrosoamines and a number of individual compounds such as Napalm. Practically all the entries of the previous edition have been retained in this edition. All revisions have been updated wherever possible to the year 2006. 

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