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Principles and Methods for the Risk Assessment of Chemicals in Food - Environmental Health Criteria 240
(2009)
The purpose of this monograph is 2-fold: 1) to provide descriptive guidance for JECFA and JMPR to ensure the continuation of transparent and sound expert evaluations of scientific data for risk assessments of chemicals in ...
Disinfectants and Disinfectant By-Products - Environmental Health Criteria 216
(2000)
Chlorine (Cl,) has been widely used throughout the world as a chemical disinfectant, serving as the principal barrier to microbial contaminants in drinking-water. The noteworthy biocidal attributes of chlorine have been ...
Biomarkers in Risk Assessment: Validity and Vlidation - Environmental Health Criteria 222
(2001)
The aim of risk assessments is to provide society with estimates of the likelihood of illnesses and injury as a consequence of exposure
to various hazards. Risk assessments are needed when social policy decisions are in ...
Extremely Low Frequency Fields - Environmental Health Criteria 238
(2007)
This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) monograph addresses the possible health effects of exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields. It reviews the physical characteristics or ELF fields as ...
Human Exposure Assessment - Environmental Health Criteria 214
(2000)
This current criteria document on human exposure assessment presents in one publication the concepts, rationale, and statistical and procedural methodologies for human exposure assessment. The underpinnings of exposure ...
Dichlorvos Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 18
(1988)
Technical dichlorvos is a colourless to amber liquid with a mild chemical odour. It is hydrolysed by water at a rate of 3% per day at room temperature. It is corrosive to iron and mild steel.The purpose of a Health and ...
Quintozene Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide No. 23
(1989)
Quintozene is a pale yellow-to-white (depending on the purity) solid with a musty odour and a melting point of 142-146 C. It is soluble in carbon disulfide, benzene, chloroform, ketones, and aromatic and chlorinated ...
Ammonia Health and Safety Guide - Health and Safety Guide 37
(1990)
Ammonia is a colourless acrid-smelling gas at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Most people can identify its odour at 35 mg/rn3 in air. It can be stored and transported as a liquid at a pressure of 10 ...
Alpha- and Betahexachlorocyclohexanes (Alpha- and Beta-HCHs) Health and Safety Guide
(1991)
a- and 13-HCH can be determined separately from the other isomers, by gas chromatography with electron-capture detection, and other methods, after extraction by liquid/liquid partition and purification by column chromatography. ...
Dimethylformamide (Dmf) - Health and Safety Guide 43
(1990)
Dimethylformamide (DMF) is a colourless liquid with only a slight, unpleasant odour; smell is, therefore, not a useful warning signal. DMF is usually stable but, when it comes into contact with strong oxidizers, halogens, ...