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Public Health Impact of Pesticides Used in Agriculture Report of a WHO/UNEP Working Group World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Environment Programme Nairobi, Kenya. 

The European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances (EUSES) [8] is the software provided by European Chemical Bureau (ECB) to implement the EU Technical Guidance Documents on Risk Assessment for new notified substances, existing substances, and biocides [3]. The development of EUSES 2.1 was commissioned by the European Commission to the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) of the Netherlands. The work was supervised by an EU working group comprised of representatives of the JRC-European Chemicals Bureau, EU Member States, and the European chemical industry. 

Substance Complexes in Soil. Dr. P. M. Huang from University of Saskatchewan, Canada, who was the founder of Working Group MO and the founding Chair of Commission 2.5 of IUSS, gave a plenary lecture on Physical-Chemical-Biological Interfacial Interactions in Soil Environments. 

Dietert, R.R., et al., Workshop to identify critical windows of exposure for children s health immune and respiratory systems work group summary, Environ. Health Perspect., 108,483, 2000. 

A working group on odours of the Inspectorate for the Environment in The Netherlands proposed, in 1983, an air quality standard for odour concentration in dwellings around odour sources (3). Because odour concentrations always have to be assessed sensorically, a guideline for olfactometric measurement was also included in the same report. Detailed recommendations were not included. In 1985 a draft chapter on odours will be pubished in the Air Pollution Control Manual with more details and comments on the measuring methods in use in The Netherlands (4). 

CEC (Commission of the European Communities), Environment and Quality of Life, CORINAIR Working Group on Emission Factors for Calculating 1985 Emissions for Road Traffic, Vol. 1 Methodology and Emission Factors, Final Report, EUR 12260 EN, 1989. 

Chloro-orl/20-toluidine is produced in relatively small volume as a dye intermediate and thus may be released into the environment in various waste streams as a result of its production, distribution and use. However, no data on its occurrence in the environment were available that would permit assessment of exposures by the Working Group. 

Bis(bromomethyl)propane-l,3-diol may enter the enviromnent as fugitive dust, through wastewater and through disposal of resins and foams which may contain the compoimd as an impurity. 2,2-Bis(bromomethyl)propane-l,3-diol may be persistent in water (Environmental Protection Agency, 1983 Elwell et al., 1989 Durmick et al., 1997). No data were available to the Working Group on levels of 2,2-bis(bromo-methyl)propane-l,3-diol in the environment. 

Lorente C, Cordier S, Bergeret A, De Walle HE, Goujard J, Ayme S, Knill-Jones R, Calzolari E, Bianchi F (2000) Maternal occupational risk factors for oral clefts. Occupational Exposure and Congenital Malformation Working Group. Scand J Work Environ Health, 26 137-145. 

CAFE (2004) Second position paper on particulate matter, CAFE working group on particulate matter, http //ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/cafe/pdf/working groups/2nd position paper pm.pdf. 20 Dec 2004... 

The chapter is based on recommendations prepared by the Ad-hoc Working Group published in 2007 (Ad-hoc AG, 2007). We wish to express our gratitude to the members of the group and the secretariat at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). 

European Commission. 2004. Baseline Report on Biomonitoring for Children in the Framework of the European Environment and Health Strategy (COM(2003)338 final). Prepared by the Technical Working Group on Integrated Monitoring. January 9, 2004 [online]. Available http //www.brussels-conference.org/Download/baseline report/BR Biomonitoring final.pdf [accessed June 3, 2005]. 

Details of the survey on the environmental endocrine disrupters refer to working group materials on the Ministry of the Environment web site http //www.env.go.jp/chemi/end/index2.html... 

Expert Working Group, 2006. POPs Monitoring Project in East Asian countries, Background air monitoring of persistent organic pollutants in East Asian countries 2004-2006, Ministry of the Environment, Japan. 

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