Chronic poison

Cadmium, 5, 925-1022 acute poisoning, 5,1000 binding to metallothioneins, 6, 673 chronic poisoning, 5, 1000 gravimetry, 1,532 masking, 1,538 metallothioneins, 5,1021 poisoning... 

These major categories are based largely on acute toxicity records, but the significance of chronic poison hazards to the adequacy of warning and directions-for-use labeling is given full consideration whenever it is a factor for public protection. 

Subacute or chronic poisoning of consumers through residues in fruit, vegetables, meat, or dairy products or through improper household use... 

Of equal importance to the public health are hazards of acute or chronic poisoning of farm animals and poultry insecticide residues in fruit, vegetables, meat, or dairy products phytotoxicity reduction of soil fertility and disturbance of the balance of nature through selective destruction of wildlife. These latter hazards are largely the responsibilities of agriculturalists and conservationists but are mentioned here for completeness. 

Dissertation [A12] discusses the results of studying 57 children from the Oshk Oblast of Kirgizia, who were chronically poisoned by granosan. A mass poisoning of 45 children took place because they ate bread made from grain that had been treated with the same protectant. Two were poisoned through... 

The risk of acute, more likely chronic, poisoning by different pesticides concerns not only this small number of children who are in one way or another linked to pesticide use, but also the larger number of children with no link whatsoever to pesticides. The danger of pesticides effects on children and their mothers is examined in many different papers [12, 37, 45, 48, 57, 70, 89, 90, 93, 96, 101, 103]. 

Overall, tens of millions of inhabitants of the Soviet Union suffered pesticide overexposure for many years and inevitably were acutely or chronically poisoned. 

LESSON 3. HUMANS INEVITABLY SUFFER ACUTE AND, MUCH MORE OFTEN, CHRONIC, POISONING FROM PESTICIDE USE. 

Zinc is an essential element for normal growth and development. However, toxicity can occur from excessive exposure. Of the following, which is not a manifestation of chronic poisoning with zinc ... 

Mild chronic poisoning 0.15 mg As daily or about 2 pg/kg BW daily (NRCC 1978)... 

Occasionally, chronic poisoning may result in anemia, leukopenia, and enlarged liver. 

Sandberg CG. 1967. A case of chronic poisoning with potassium cyanide Acta Med Scand 181 233-236. 

Clark G, Stavinoha WB. 1971. A permeability ehange in CNS tissue in chronic poisoning with disulfoton. Life Sci [I] 10 421-423. 

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