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Methanol - Environmental Health Criteria 196
(1997)
Methanol is a clear, colourless, volatile flammable liquid with a mild alcoholic odour when pure. It is miscible with water and many organic solvents and forms many binary azeotropic mixtures. Methanol occurs naturally ...
Principles for the Assessment of Risks to Human Health from Exposure to Chemicals - Environmental Health Criteria 210
(1999)
This monograph is an amalgamation of two draft documents "Principles for the Assessment of Risk from Exposure to Chemicals" and "General Principles and Methods for Chemical Safety (Human Health Protection)". Both documents ...
1,1,1 - Trichloroethane - Environmental Health Criteria 136
(1992)
1,1,1-Trichloroethane is a chlorinated hydrocarbon which is manufactured from vinyl chloride or vinylidene chloride by chlorination. The world production was approximately 680 000 tonnes in 1988. It is a colourless, ...
Selected Mycotoxins: Ochratoxins, Trichothecenes, Ergot - Environmental Health Criteria 105
(1990)
Ochratoxins are produced by several species of the fungal genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. These fungi are ubiquitous and the potential for the contamination of foodstuffs and animal feed is widespread. Ochratoxin A, ...
2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) - Environmental Health Criteria 29
(1984)
All exposure determinations and risk assessments ultimately depend on accurate chemical analyses, and therefore some critical aspects of analysis for 2,4-D residues have been included in the present document. The available ...
Selected Radionuclides - Environmental Health Criteria 25
(1983)
In this report the more general considerations of environmental behaviour of several radionuclides are discussed, including sources, transport to man and dosimetry. The radionuclides discussed are those most frequently ...
Polychlorinated Dibenzo-Para-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans - Environmental Health Criteria 88
(1989)
Polychlorinated dibenzo—p—dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are two series of tricyclic aromatic compounds with similar chemical and physical properties; they are ubiquitous in the environment. They ...
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 ...
Carbon Monoxide - Environmental Health Criteria 13
(1979)
Carbon and oxygen combine to form either carbon monoxide (CO) (incomplete combustion) or carbon dioxide (CO,) (complete
combustion). Whereas carbon dioxide is inert, carbon monoxide is a potent poison owing to its ability ...
Noise: Executive Summary- Environmental Health Criteria 12
(1980)
Noise is considered to be any unwanted sound that may adversely affect the health and wellbeing of individuals or populations. Physically, sound is a mechanical disturbance propagated as a longitudinal wave motion in air ...