Chemical health threats : assessing and alerting / edited by Raquel Duarte-Davidson [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duarte-Davidson, Raquel, editor.

Series:

Issues in toxicology ; 1757-7179 38.

Issues in toxicology 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazardous substances--Safety measures--International cooperation.

Hazardous substances.

Hazardous substances--Health aspects--Europe.

Hazardous substances--Risk assessment--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2019]

Summary:

"Chemical health threats can have impacts across national borders and so may be more effectively tackled by international cooperation than by individual governments acting alone. As such, in November 2013, the European Union published the EU Decision for Serious Cross Border Threats to Health establishing a number of mechanisms for a coordinated, Europe-wide response with regards to preparedness, risk assessment, risk management, risk communication and international cooperation. Comprising a series of chapters from leading international researchers, this book covers recent developments in the field which support the implementation of these European legal instruments. It begins by contextualising the need for data that surveillance of toxic threats can deliver, before going on to examine some of the tools that have been developed to facilitate toxicosurveillance in Europe as well as current toxicosurveillance networks outside the EU. In addition, this book covers the European Union regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and the work of the Alerting System for Chemical Health Threats (ASHT) project to improve the risk assessment and management of chemical health threats in Europe. The volume provides a vital resource for researchers, educators, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in key questions facing global hazardous substance control." -- Publisher

Contents:

Overview of Alerting, Assessing and Responding to Chemical Public Health Threats / S. Wyke and R. Duarte-Davidson

Chemical Regulation at the European Level : Safeguarding Consumer Health and Protecting the Environment / Ehi Idahoa-Taylor and Samuel Collins

Medical Management of Mass Intoxications / Herbert Desel and Nina Glaser

Hazardous Exposures to Liquid Laundry Detergents Capsules in Young Children / L. Settimi, E. Idahosa-Taylor, S. Wyke and F. Davanzo

Novel Applications of Spatial Mapping to Chemicals or Biological Outbreaks / Paolo Massimo Buscema and Francesca Della Torre

Surveillance of Chemical Health Threats / Tom Gaulton, Rob Orford, Charlotte Hague, Eirian Thomas, and Raquel Duarte-Davidson

Responding to New Psychoactive Substances in the Europen Union : Early Warning, Risk Assessment and Control Measures / M. Evans-Brown, A. Almeida, A. Gallegos, R. Christie, R. Jorge, H. V. Danielsson, T. le Ruez and R. Sedefov

Rapid Public Health Risk Assessments for Emerging Chemical Health Threats / Emma-Jane Goode, Samuel Collins, Charlotte Hague, Rob Orford and Raquel Duarte-Davidson

Review of Risk Management Measures to Mitigate Against Exposures to Household Chemical Consumer Products / S. Wyke and H. Desel

Understanding and Managing Behavioural and Psychological Responses to Chemical Incidents / Richard Amlôt and Holly Carter

Strategic, Technical and Scientific Advice in an Environmental Emergency / Henrietta Harrison and Naima Bradley

Public Health Preparation and Response to Chemical Incident Emergencies / Mark Griffiths

Chemical Incident Management : An Overview of Preparedness, Response and Recovery / Emma Goode, Tom James and Stacey Wyke

Investigating Outbreaks of Unknown Aetiology / S. Collins, T. Gaulton and T. James.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781523122905

1523122900

9781788015523

1788015525

9781782623687

178262368X