Dioxins and health : including other persistent organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors / edited by Arnold Schecter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schecter, Arnold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dioxins--Toxicology.

Dioxins.

Environmental toxicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (676 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Explores the latest science on dioxins and other POPs, and their impact on human health Now in its third edition, Dioxins and Health is the most respected reference of its kind, presenting the latest scientific findings on dioxins, dibenzofurans, polychlorinated biphenyls and related compounds, and their impact on human health. The book fully examines the many toxicological effects-including immunological, neurological, developmental, dermatological, and cardiological-these chemicals have on health. This Third Edition has been greatly expanded with the latest research

Contents:

Persistent organic pollutants : an overview / Daniele Wikoff, Lauren Fitzgerald, Linda Birnbaum

Toxic equivalency factors (TEFS) for dioxin and related compounds / Michael DeVito

Historic and newer persistent organic pollutants (POPS) in U.S. food / Janice Huwe

Flame retardants : PBDES and their replacements / Thomas Webster, Heather Stapleton

Pharmacokinetics of TCDD and related compounds / James Olson

Immunomodulation by persistent organic pollutants / Robert Luebke ... [et al.]

Developmental neurotoxicity of dioxins / G. Jean Harry, Pamela J. Lein

Epidemiological evidence on the health effects of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) / Kyle Steenland, Tony Fletcher, David Savitz

Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans / Kurunthachalam Kannan, Chunyang Liao, Hyo-Bang Moon

Epidemiological studies on cancer and exposure to dioxin and related compounds / Lennart Hardell, Mikeal Eriksson

Reproductive and developmental epidemiology of dioxins

Anne Sweeney ... [et al.]

Bisphenol A / Thaddeus Shug ... [et al.]

Phthalates : human exposure and related health effects / John D. Meeker, Kelly K. Ferguson

The seveso accident / Angela Cecilia Pesatori, Pier Alberto Bertazzi

Agent orange : long term health and environmental impact in Vietnam / Susan Hammond, Arnold Schecter

The yusho and yucheng rice oil poisoning incidents / Yoshito Masuda, Arnold Schecter

The Binghamtom New York electrical transformer fire incident of 1981 / Nancy Kim, Arnold Schecter

The Yushchenko dioxin poisoning : chronology and pharmacokinetics / John Jake Ryan

Human health risk assessment of POPS / David Szabo, Anne E. Loccisano.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613619136

9781280589300

1280589302

9781118184165

1118184165

9781118184141

1118184149

9781118184172

1118184173

OCLC:

781614621