Health hazards, environmental

California EPA, Public Health Goal for Methyl Tert Butyl Ether (MTBE) in Drinking Water, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento, CA. Available at http //www.oehha.ca.gov/ water/phg/allphgs.html, 1999. 

In this review we shall not deal with the synthesis of this coordination complex, but we shall deal with the chemical properties of B 12-coenzymes with special emphasis on how these properties relate to Bi2-enzyme mechanisms. Also, we shall show how B -catalyzed methyl-transfer reactions have special significance in the biosynthesis of methylated heavy metals in the aqueous environment, and how the synthesis of these organometallic compounds has special relevance to problems concerned with continuing global environmental health hazards. 

Committee on Pyrene and Selected Analogues, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, National Research Council. "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Evaluation of Sources and Effects" National Academy Press Washington, D.C., 1983. 

Revonna M. Bieber is currently working for the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in the field of industrial hygiene. Her work focuses on environmental health hazards and radiologic and healthcare safety. She is the co-author, with Frank R. Spellman, of Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Chemical Industry (GI, 2009) and numerous other books. 

The Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards of the National Research Council (Assembly of Life Sciences) took on the job. Dr. Frank N. Marzulli set up blue ribbon panels to carry out these two formidable analyses. Most members were respected professors of pharmacology, toxicology, and related specialties others were qualified statisticians and experts in experimental design. 

Breslow, L. (1984). Nonoccupational health risks of asbestiform fibers. Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform Fibers, Board of Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, DC. 

The Guides are intended for occupational health services, and persons in ministries, governmental agencies, industry, and trade unions who are involved in the safe use of chemicals and the avoidance of environmental health hazards. 

Eckardt RE Occupational and environmental health hazards in the plastics industry. Environ Health Perspect 17 103-196, 1976... 

California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). 

California - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - Education - Art Hazards. Online. Available HTTP (accessed 10 April 2003). 

Site is geared to protect children from exposures to environmental health hazards. ... 

Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards Commission on Life Sciences National Research Council... 

The Department of the Army asked the Committee on Toxicology, In the Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards of the Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study of the possible chronic adverse health effects on servicemen of experimental exposure to various chemicals at the U.S. Army Laboratories (formerly the Army Chemical Center), Edgewood,... 

California Air Resources Board/Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Benzol a] pyrene as a Toxic Air Contaminant (1994) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment/California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Toxics Hot Spot Program Risk Assessment Guideline, Part II Technical Support Document for Describing Available Cancer Potency Factors (1998) Collins et al. (1998). 

From California Air Resources Board (1994) and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) (1998). 

Clearly, a sound evaluation of the total mutagenic/carcinogenic potencies of a complex mixture of POM emissions (e.g., diesel exhaust) should include not only the PEFs of the primary particle- and vapor-phase PAHs and PACs but also those of the mutagens formed in atmospheric reactions of precursor PAHs (see, for example, Arey et al. (1992), Lewtas (1993b), Atkinson and Arey (1994), Nielsen et al. (1996), Arey (1998a), and Section F). For examples of such formal scientific health risk assessments prepared by the State of California Air Resources Board and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, see Benzo[ ]pyrene as a Toxic Air Contaminant (CARB, 1994) and Identification of Diesel Exhaust as a Toxic Air Contaminant (CARB, 1998). 

California Environmental Protection Agency, Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Final Report, September 1997. Available from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, 301 Capitol Mall, Second Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814 http //www.calepa. cahwnet. gov/oehha/. 

This volume presents the findings of a study started in the fall of 1979. The study was conducted by the Committee on Chemical Environmental Mutagens of the National Research Council s Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards. It was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency. 

A broad spectrum of diseases in children are known (or suspected) to be associated with unhealthy environments. For much of the world, traditional environmental health hazards continue to remain the primary source of ill-health. These include lack of adequate nutrition, poor sanitation, contaminated water, rampant disease vectors (e.g. mosquitoes and malaria), and unsafe waste disposal. In addition, rapid globalization and industrialization coupled with unsustainable patterns of production and consumption have released large quantities of chemical substances into the environment. Although the term environmental exposure can encompass a variety of factors, the focus of this document is specifically on environmental chemical exposures. Most of these substances have not been assessed for potential toxicity to children, nor have the most vulnerable subpopulations of children been identified. The incidence of a number of important paediatric diseases and disorders (e.g. asthma, neurobehavioural impairment) is increasing in several parts of the world. Although a variety of factors are likely to be involved, this may be due, in part, to the quality of the environment in which children live, grow, and play. 

Legator, Marvin S., Barbara L, Harper, and Michael J, Scott, 1985, The Health Detective s Handbook A Guide to the Investigation of Environmental Health Hazards by Nonprofessionals. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press,... 

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