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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309071402
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Mercury is widespread in our environment. Methylmercury, one organic form of mercury, can accumulate up the aquatic food chain and lead to high concentrations in predatory fish. When consumed by humans, contaminated fish represent a public health risk. Combustion processes, especially coal-fired power plants, are major sources of mercury contamination in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering regulating mercury emissions from those plants. Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury reviews the health effects of methylmercury and discusses the estimation of mercury exposure from measured biomarkers, how differences between individuals affect mercury toxicity, and appropriate statistical methods for analysis of the data and thoroughly compares the epidemiological studies available on methylmercury. Included are discussions of current mercury levels on public health and a delineation of the scientific aspects and policy decisions involved in the regulation of mercury. This report is a valuable resource for individuals interested in the public health effects and regulation of mercury. The report also provides an excellent example of the implications of decisions in the risk assessment process for a larger audience.

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Category : Factory and trade waste
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher:
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.

Author: Stanley Berent
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781841695655
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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This book, the first of three volumes, provides a thorough background to the emerging field of neurobehavioral toxicology by looking at current clinical approaches and tests, as well as assessing current clinical research. The analysis of the impact of toxins on the human nervous system is particularly pertinent given the ongoing expansion of pharmaceuticals, industrial hazards, biological warfare and global pollution. A comprehensive introduction to neurobehavioral toxicology, this work will be of interest to practicing neurologists and neuropsychologists, as well as to occupational medicine physicians and medical toxicologists.