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Experimental Aflatoxic Cancerogenesis and Undernutrition Ultrastructural and Pathomorphological Basis
(1985)
Knowledge about aflatoxine has developed during an era of increasing awareness of the importance of natural as well as man-made chemicals as environmental contaminants
International Waters of the Middle East: From Euphrates-Tigris to Nile - Water Resources Management Series 2
(Oxford University Press, 1994)
This book studies the three major river basins and address the many difficulties faced by countries in this region. While political differences often stand in the way of cooperation between countries, the contributors to ...
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 ...
English-Russian Glossary of Selected Terms in Preventive Toxicology: Interim Document
(1982)
In view of the constantly growing interest on the part of medical scientists, biologists and specialists in many other fields of knowledge in the problems of protecting the environment from chemical pollutants, there is ...
Trimellitic Anhydride Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 71
(1992)
Trimellitic anhydride is a white solid in the firm of flakes. It is readily hydrolysed in water to trimellitic acid, which is moderately soluble in water. Trimellitic anhydride is readily soluble in acetone, cyclohexanone, ...
International Environmental Information System INFOTERRA in the Soviet Union: 10 Years of Operation
(1987)
This brochure is addressed to the USSR/UNEP cooperation within the framework of the International Environmental Information System - INFOTERRA - whose ten years of operation as an information system is marked in this current ...
Endemic Fluorosis: A Global Health Issue - A Technical Report for the Human Assessment Locations Project
(1992)
Fluoride is one of the essential trace elements, a lack of which is manifested as dental caries throughout many parts of the world, yet excess fluoride is responsible for more serious disease (WHO, 1984b).
Employers’ Organisations and the Working Environment
(1983)
The second item on the agenda of the ILO/UNEP Regional Meeting of Employers' Organisations on Environment and Development in Africa is devoted to the working environment. The present document is intended to serve as ...
Inventory and Monitoring of Sahelian Pastoral Ecosystems: Senegal - GEMS Sahel Series Main Report
(1988)
The report gives a concise account of the research carried out in Senegal from 1980 to 1984 on the inventory and monitoring of Sahelian grazing ecosystems. The method used is new in as much as it combines several techniques: ...