Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 41
Selected Synthetic Organic Fibres - Environmental Health Criteria 151
(1993)
This document is a review of occupational and environmental exposure to selected synthetic organic fibres. The particular fibres covered in this document have been selected because they are the only ones for which some ...
Principles and Methods for the Assessment of Nephrotoxicity Associated with Exposure to Chemicals - Environmental Health Criteria 119
(1991)
Nephrotoxicity can be defined as renal disease or dysfunction that arises as a direct or indirect result of exposure to medicines, and industrial or environmental chemicals. It is well established that toxic nephropathies ...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Terphenyls (Second Edition) - Environmental Health Criteria 140
(1993)
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were discovered before the turn of the century and their usefulness for industry, because of their physical properties, was recognized early. The PCBs have been used commercially, since ...
Polybrominated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans - Environmental Health Criteria 205
(1998)
Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PBDDs) and polybrominated dibenzofurans (PBDFs) are almost planar tricyclic aromatic compounds.
Theoretically, 75 PBDDs and 135 PBDFs are possible. In addition, a large number of mixed ...
Principles and Methods for Assessing Direct Immunotoxicity Associated with Exposure to Chemicals - Environmental Health Criteria 180
(1996)
In this monograph, the function and histophysiology of the immune system are reviewed, and the information necessary to understand and interpret the pathological changes caused by immunotoxic insults is provided. Emphasis ...
Selected Non-Heterocyclic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons - Environmental Health Criteria 202
(1998)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) constitute a large class of compounds, and hundreds of individual substances may be released during incomplete combustion or pyrolysis of organic matter, an important source of human ...
Selected Chloroalkyl Ethers - Enviromnental Health Criteria 201
(1998)
Bis(2-chloroethyl) ether (BCEE), bis(chloromethyl) ether (BCME) and chioromethyl methyl ether (CMME) are chemicals from
a large class known as chloroalkyl ethers. The three ethers are colourless volatile liquids at room ...
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 63
(1991)
Pure hexachiorocyclopentadiene (HEX) is a light, lemon-yellow liquid that has a pungent, musty odour. The odour threshold is reported to be 0.0014-0.0016 mg/m3. HEX is highly reactive and volatile at low temperatures. ...
Inorganic Arsenic Compounds other than Arsine Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 70
(1992)
Arsenic compounds are often unstable, and in many cases are not well defined materials. For example, the arsenites of the alkali metals are slowly converted in solution to arsenates, by atmospheric oxygen. Arsenic trisulfide ...
Rotenone Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 73
(1992)
Rotenone is a naturally occurring chemical with insecticidal and piscicidal properties obtained from the roots of several tropical and subtropical plant species belonging to genus Lonchcarpus or Derris. Rotenone is a ...