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Waste Discharge into the Marine Environment: Principles and Guidelines for the Mediterranean Action Plan
(1982)
The present volume provides principles and guidelines for the issuance of permits by national authorities for the discharge of certain types of waste and other matter into the marine environment.
Exposure Monitoring of Lead and Cadmium: An International Pilot Study within the WHO/UNEP Human Exposure Assessment Location (HEAL) Programme Technical Report
(1990)
This pilot study was one of the first to be developed and implemented as part of the HEAL project The experience gained shows that, although costly and complicated, it is possible to make comparable measurements on an ...
Lead - Environmental Health Criteria 3
(1977)
A WHO Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria for Lead met in Geneva from 29 April to 5 May 1975. The Task Group reviewed and revised the second draft criteria document and made an evaluation of the health risks from ...
Arsenic - Environmental Health Criteria 18
(1981)
Arsenic is a ubiquitous element with metalloid properties. Its chemistry is complex and there are many different compounds of both inorganic and organic arsenic. In nature, it is widely distributed in a number of minerals, ...
Inorganic Lead - Environmental Health Criteria 165
(1995)
This monograph focuses on the risks to human health associated with exposure to lead and inorganic lead compounds. Emphasis has been given to data which have become available since the publication of Environmental Health ...
Joint FAO/WHO Food and Animal Feed Contamination Monitoring Programme: Summary of Data Received from Collaborating Centres 1977 to 1980 Part B - Contaminants
(1981)
Residue data on several contaminants (organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, lead, cadmium, and aflatoxins) in selected foods were collected from designated Collaborating Centres in twenty countries during a preliminary or ...
Cadre opérationnel : Alliance mondiale pour l'élimination des peintures au plomb
(2012)
Le plomb est un métal toxique dont l’usage largement répandu entraîne une contamination de l’environnement et d’importants problèmes de santé publique dans de nombreuses régions du monde. Le plomb peut avoir des effets ...
Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint: Business Plan
(2013)
This Business Plan for the work of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint has been developed in response to resolution II/4/B adopted by the second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) ...
Health-Related Monitoring (Background paper): UNEP/WHO Group of Government Experts on Health-Related Monitoring
(1977)
The aim of the document is to present monitoring activities that are implemented within GEMS and to propose additional activities that will make possible the development of a coherent and comprehensive programme of ...
Brief Guide to Analytical Methods for Measuring Lead in Blood
(2011)
This document provides a brief overview of analytical methods commonly used for measuring lead in blood. It is primarily aimed at informing public health personnel and policy-makers who are not laboratory specialists but ...