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To efficiendy drive the development of improved substrate materials, the limiting values of birefringence have to be known this is especially tme for WORM and EOD(MOR) substrate disks. These limit values were laid down by the ANSI (American National Standard Institute) Technical Standard Committee (186—188). For 5.25 in. WORM disks, the ANSI document X 3 B 11/88-144 recommends a maximum LEP value of 9% this corresponds to an optical path difference perpendicular to the plane of the disk of not more than 80 nm/mm (double path). For 5.25 in. EOD(MOR) disks, more stringent conditions apply (ANSI-document X 3 B 11/88-049), which also allow calculation of the allowed range. 

The first step is to identify the substances present at the workplace. As a starting point, knowledge of the process is needed in order to formulate a list of all chemical agents used in the establishment. The list should include not only primary products but also intermediate and final products, as well as reaction products and by-products. For the chemical agents in the list, it is necessary to know their chemical properties, especially hazardous ones their OEL values, including biological limit values and, where these are not available, other technical criteria that can be used to evaluate the risk. It is also helpful to include any information on the safety and health risks of those substances provided by the supplier or other readily available sources. This information on dangerous substances and preparations, in the form of safety data sheets, is intended primarily for industrial users, to enable them to take the measures necessary to ensure the safety and health of workers. 

Rosenblatt, D.H. Dacre, J.C. Cogley, D.R. "An Environmental Fate Model Leading to Preliminary Pollutant Limit Values for Human Health Effects," Technical Report 8005, U.S. Army Medical Bioengineering Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 1980, AD B049917L. 

For either plant type, incineration, or fuel type, these factors must be empirically determined and controlled. Because dioxins as effluents are concerned, it is possible to reduce I-TE values from about 50 ng/m to about 1 ng/m. Additional secondary measures (filter techniques) are therefore necessary for obtaining the lower limit value of 0.1 ng/m. Secondary measures are special filter techniques for pollutants formed in nongreen processes, also called end-of-pipe technology. The main part of technical incineration plants consists of filter devices, mostly coke as adsorbent is used, which must be decontaminated later by itself by burning in hazardous-waste incinerators. The inhibition technology, discussed later, is related on principles of primary (green) measures for a clean incineration method. 

One technique employed to arrive, at an appropriate value has been postulated by L. Torbeck [16], who has taken a statistical and practical approach that in the absence of any other retest rationale can be judged as a technically sound plan. According to Torbeck, the question to be answered— how big should the sample be —is not easily resolved. One answer is that we first need a prior estimate of the inherent variability, the variance, under the same conditions to be used in the investigation. What is needed is an estimate of a risk level (defined as the percentage of probability that a significant difference exists between samples when there is none what statisticians call a type 1 error), the (i risk level ([1 is the probability of concluding that there is no difference between two means when there is one also known as a type 2 error) and the size of the difference (between the OOS result and the limit value) to be detected. The formula for the sample size for a difference from the mean is expressed as ... 

Data on the chemical analysis of cestodes are of limited value unless the nutritional status of the host is known, as significant fluctuations in individual parasite components can occur. Furthermore, the chemical composition may vary with the strain of both parasite and host, the host species, the age of the cestode and its degree of maturation. This is partly illustrated in Table 4.1, which shows the variation in biochemical composition of Echinococcus granulosus obtained from different hosts. Some of the available data must also be accepted with caution on technical grounds, because a number of the older analytical methods have been shown, by more modern workers, to be unreliable. 

It is important, however, to note that the terms used by policy makers (and in law) are not consistent. For example, under EU law binding air quality standards are termed limit values. However, the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive, which regulates industrial pollution, uses the term environmental quality standard and makes clear that the limit values are environmental quality standards. Both technical experts and lawyers, therefore, can use different terms in similar contexts. This variation not only can be found between media (e.g., air and water standards) but also can occur within a single medium. 

In occupational settings, technical measures should prevent any contact with the skin and mucous membranes. Workers exposed to carbon tetrabromide should wear personal protective equipment and their work should be carried out only in restricted areas. After use, clothing and equipment should be placed in an impervious container for decontamination or disposal. The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists threshold limit value for carbon tetrabromide is 0.1 ppm. 

Landfill Directive (99/31/EC) Introduced new technical and operational requirements for landfills across Europe and targets for the reduction in landfill of biodegradable wastes.The Decision (2003/ 33/EC), which comes into force in July 2004, is crucial for the implementation of the 1999 Landfill Directive. It outlines criteria for the waste that can be accepted at each of the defined types of site and for underground storage, sets out strict EU-wide leaching limit values and defines testing methods. The criteria are to be applied by Member States by July 2005. 

Obviously, decision makers did not remain unconcerned, especially considering traffic emissions. The first regulation came into force by September 1971, a few months before the first earth summit the Stockholm conference. It was the starting point of a long sequence of amendment steps towards more and more stringent emission limit values, also associated with numerous technical standards (monitoring procedures, test cycle profiles, vehicle fleet typology,. ..). 

Army. 1981b. Preliminary pollutant limit values for Alabama Army Ammunition Plant. Technical report 8105. Frederick, MD U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, Fort Detrick. Document no. AD A104203. (author Rosenblatt and Small). 

During the past decades, concern about the hazards of toxic metals and their compounds for human health and the environment has increased worldwide. In many countries, legislative and administrative measures have been taken to reduce environmental pollution and to prevent adverse effects resulting from exposure to toxic substances in the environment. The legislation and administrative procedures for the control of toxic metals and their compounds are largely based on technical standards, limit values and guideline values. 

Limit values enforced by law or other legal regulations are often based on guideline values recommended by expert committees, scientific organizations or international organizations. However, there may be some deviations from these recommendations as a result of political, economic, social or technical considerations and reasons. 

These values correspond to the actual state of scientific and technical knowledge and also to current levels of contaminants in foodstuffs in the Member States of the EC. The toxicological assessment gives the frame to prescribe limit values for these metals in foodstuffs by law. 

For other effects like carcinogenicity such a threshold does not exist. For lirose substances if considered to be not substitutable for the time being - risk based limit values are established, taking technical and economical feasibility iirto account. 

Reinforced health surveillance is foreseen and the practical recommendations for the health surveillance are given in Annex II. Annex III sets limit values on the basis of the available information, including scientific and technical data. At present, Annex in includes only limit values for benzene, vinyl chloride monomer and inhalable hardwood dust. 

The SCOEL evaluates the scientific dossier and the supplementary data for the identification of the critical health effects and then proposes a recommendation for a health-based limit value in a summary document, which in addition to the recommendation for an OEL, also contains further information on the basic data, a description of the critical effect, the extrapolation techniques used, and any data on possible risks to human health. The technical feasibility of monitoring exposure is also noted. Furthermore the SCOEL identifies important gaps in the data and the need for more research. Once the Committee agrees the summary document the Commission makes it public to interested parties with the request for health based scientific comments and eventually further data. After a period of about six months allowed for comments, the SCOEL rediscusses the document in the light of the comments received and adopts the final version, which is then published by the Commission. 

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