Dioxins and Health – Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors 3e

Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors

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Gebonden, 680 blz. | Engels
John Wiley & Sons | 3e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9780470605295
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John Wiley & Sons 3e druk, 2012 9780470605295
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This text offers the most respected book available for scientific information about dioxins, dibenzofurans, and PCBs. The new edition combines chapters on the classical dioxins and PCBs with new and emerging toxic pollutants. This edition also updates the science involved in the dioxin and PCB literature while adding new chapters on toxic pollutants such as brominated flame retardants, phthalates, and perfluorinated chemicals. A comprehensive resource, this book provides, in one volume, essential information about these compounds written by some of the most respected and cited scientists in their fields.

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ISBN13:9780470605295
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:680
Druk:3

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<p>PREFACE xi</p>
<p>ACKNOWLEDGMENT xvi</p>
<p>ABOUT THE EDITOR xvii</p>
<p>CONTRIBUTORS xix</p>
<p>LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES xxiii</p>
<p>1 PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS: AN OVERVIEW 1<br /> &nbsp;Daniele Wikoff, Lauren Fitzgerald, and Linda Birnbaum</p>
<p>2 TOXICITY EQUIVALENCE FACTORS FOR DIOXIN AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 37&nbsp;<br /> Michael DeVito</p>
<p>3 HISTORIC AND NEWER PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN FOOD 53<br /> Janice Huwe</p>
<p>4 FLAME RETARDANTS: POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS 89&nbsp;<br /> Thomas F. Webster and Heather M. Stapleton</p>
<p>5 PHARMACOKINETICS OF 2,3,7,8–TETRACHLORODIBENZO–AND RELATED COMPOUNDS P–DIOXIN&nbsp;&nbsp;109&nbsp;<br /> James R. Olson</p>
<p>6 IMMUNOMODULATION BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 171&nbsp;<br /> Robert W. Luebke, Jamie C. DeWitt, Dori R. Germolec, Keith D. Salazar, and Nancy I. Kerkvliet</p>
<p>7 DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY OF DIOXINS 193&nbsp;<br /> G. Jean Harry and Pamela J. Lein</p>
<p>8 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ON THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID 229&nbsp;<br /> Kyle Steenland, Tony Fletcher, and David A. Savitz</p>
<p>9 POLYBROMINATED P–DIOXINS AND DIBENZO–DIBENZOFURANS 255&nbsp;<br /> Kurunthachalam Kannan, Chunyang Liao, and Hyo–Bang Moon</p>
<p>10 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON CANCER AND EXPOSURE TO DIOXINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 303&nbsp;<br /> Lennart Hardell and Mikael Eriksson</p>
<p>11 REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIOXINS 359<br /> Anne Sweeney, Deborah J. del Junco, Marcella Warner, and Brenda Eskenazi</p>
<p>12 BISPHENOL A 381&nbsp;<br /> Thaddeus T. Schug, Sarah A. Vogel, Laura N. Vandenberg, Joe M. Braun, Russ Hauser, Julia A. Taylor, Frederick S. vom Saal, and Jerold J. Heindel</p>
<p>13 PHTHALATES: HUMAN EXPOSURE AND RELATED HEALTH EFFECTS 415&nbsp;<br /> John D. Meeker and Kelly K. Ferguson</p>
<p>14 THE SEVESO ACCIDENT 445&nbsp;<br /> Angela Cecilia Pesatori and Pier Alberto Bertazzi</p>
<p>15 AGENT ORANGE: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, AND LAOS 469&nbsp;<br /> Susan Hammond and Arnold Schecter</p>
<p>16 THE YUSHO AND YUCHENG RICE OIL POISONING INCIDENTS 521&nbsp;<br /> Yoshito Masuda and Arnold Schecter</p>
<p>17 THE BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER FIRE INCIDENT OF 1981 553&nbsp;<br /> Nancy Kim and Arnold Schecter</p>
<p>18 THE YUSHCHENKO DIOXIN POISONING: CHRONOLOGY AND PHARMACOKINETICS 567<br /> John Jake Ryan</p>
<p>19 POPs AND HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT 579&nbsp;<br /> David T. Szabo and Anne E. Loccisano</p>
<p>INDEX 619</p>

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