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Aircraft Disinsection Insecticides / World Health Organization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization, author, issuing body.
- Series:
- Environmental health criteria.
- Environmental Health Criteria
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes--Environmental aspects.
- Airplanes.
- Insect pests--Control.
- Insect pests.
- Insecticides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) series publication describes a generic human health risk assessment model which can be used for risk assessment of exposure to insecticides which are used for disease vector control on board aircraft (the process known as aircraft disinsection). It aims to provide information to national regulatory authorities to assist in conducting risk assessments of such insecticides including worked examples of typical products.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; TERMINOLOGY, ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS; PREFACE; PART A: A GENERIC RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR DISINSECTION OF AIRCRAFT WITH CHEMICAL INSECTICIDES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PURPOSE; 3. BACKGROUND; 3.1 Description of aircraft disinsection procedures; 3.2 Essential elements of a risk assessment model; 4. THE HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL; 4.1 Hazard assessment (hazard identification and hazard characterization); 4.2 Exposure assessment; 4.3 Risk characterization; 5. CONCLUSIONS; 6. SUMMARY OF THE HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL AND WORKED EXAMPLES
- REFERENCESPART B: EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL INSECTICIDE PRODUCTS INTENDED FOR USE IN AIRCRAFT DISINSECTION; INTRODUCTION; EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL SPRAY CONCENTRATE PRODUCTS (PERMETHRIN); EVALUATION OF SPACE SPRAY AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR AIRCRAFT HOLD DISINSECTION; EVALUATION OF SPACE SPRAY AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR CABIN DISINSECTION (D-PHENOTHRIN); EVALUATION OF SPACE SPRAY AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR CABIN DISINSECTION (PERMETHRIN); EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL SPRAY CONCENTRATE PRODUCTS (ETOFENPROX); EVALUATION OF SPACE SPRAY AEROSOL PRODUCTS FOR CABIN DISINSECTION (ETOFENPROX)
- EVALUATION OF OTHER TYPES OF DISINSECTION METHODREFERENCES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 92-4-069199-5
- OCLC:
- 892245842
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