Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Point, Thomas W., 1949- Author.

Price, Fred T., author.

Little, Edward E., author.

Series:

ASTM special technical publication ; 1262.

ASTM special technical publication ; 1262

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health risk assessment.

Pollution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] American Society for Testing & Materials 1996

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most current information available on the international aspects of pollution and its impact on the environment. This comprehensive text includes state of the art research from Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United States. Featured topics among 15 peer-reviewed papers include: Transboundary pollution issues across international borders • Laboratory and field estimation of exposure and effects • Risk assessment and human health • Generic industrial cleanup criteria in Canada and the U.S. • Aquatic toxicology • Bioindicators International approaches to sediment toxicity assessment.

Contents:

Overview of Transboundary Pollution Issues Along the Mexico-US Border / E.J. Medina

Testing Decisions of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee for Chemicals on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act Domestic Substances List and Priority Substances List: Di-tert-butylphenol, Ethyl Benzene, Brominated Flame Retardants, Phthalate Esters, Chloroparaffins, Chlorinated Benzenes, and Anilines / J.D. Walker

Use of Artificial Lighting in Environmental Assessment Studies / B.M. Greenberg, D.G. Dixon, M.I. Wilson, X.-D. Huang, B.J. McConkey, C.L. Duxbury, K. Gerhardt and R.W. Gensemer

Coastal Oceanographic Characteristics and Their Impact on Marine Effluent Biotoxicity Studies During the SEFLOE II Project / D.N. Commons, J.R. Proni and R.E. Fergen

Integrated Ecological Hazard Assessment of Waste Site Soil Extracts Using FETAX and Short-Term Fathead Minnow Teratogenesis Assay / D.J. Fort, E.L. Stover and J.A. Bantle

Plant Ecotoxicology: The Design and Evaluation of Plant Performance in Risk Assessments and Forensic Ecology / L.A. Kapustka

The Development of Generic Industrial Cleanup Criteria in the State of Michigan / R.S. Berger, J.H. Barkach and W.F. Kuhn

A Comparison of Generic Human Health Risk-Based Soil Remediation Criteria in Canada and the U.S.: Two Case Studies / M.J. Kangas, P.K. Scott, B.L. Finley and D.J. Paustenbach

Hepatic Cytochrome P450 1A as a Biomarker for Hydrocarbon and Oxidant Pollutants in Fish: Relevance of Identification of Specific Mechanism(s) of Induction and Potential Effects on Homeostasis / T.R. Zacharewski, G.P. McCallum, J.J. Stegeman and J.R. Bend

A Methodology to Identify Safer Chemical Products / B. Quan

Strategy for Developing Remediation Target Concentrations Based on Human Exposure Duration Considerations / J.M. Nielsen, S.T. Washburn and K.M. Keoughan

Measures of Fish Behavior as Indicators of Sublethal Toxicosis During Standard Toxicity Tests / E.E. Little and A.J. DeLonay

Current Status of Environment Canada's Guidance on Control of Test Precision Using a Spiked Sediment Toxicity Test: What to Spike and How? / G.L. Stephenson, K.E. Day, R. Scroggins, R.S. Kirby and P. Hamr

Perspectives in Avoidance-Preference Bioassays / C.W. Steele, D.H. Taylor and S. Strickler-Shaw

Behavioral Avoidance as Evidence of Injury to Fishery Resources: Applications to Natural Resource Damage Assessment / A.J. DeLonay, E.E. Little, J. Lipton, D.E. Woodward and J.A. Hansen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780803153240

0803153244