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The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 1996-1997
(1997)
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard was approved by the 28th World Health Assembly in 1975 and has since gained wide acceptance. When it was published in the WHO Chronicle, 22, 397-401 (1975), an ...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Terphenyls - Executive Summary. Environmental Health Criteria 2
(1976)
Polychlorinated hbiphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) are complex organic chemicals used widely for their insulating properties. They are liquids of various densities containing chlorine, hydrogen and ...
Oxides of Nitrogen - Environmental Health Criteria 4
(1977)
In the context of this criteria document, the term oxides of nitrogen is understood to include nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Other oxides of nitrogen which exist in the atmosphere are not known to have any ...
Mycotoxins - Environmental Health Criteria 11
(1979)
The present document contains an evaluation of health risks associated with four classes of mycotoxins. Aflatoxins are treated in most detail because more is known about them than about the other mycotoxins and because ...
Chlorine and Hydrogen Chloride - Environmental Health Criteria 21
(1982)
The major sources of exposure to chlorine and hydrogen chloride that are of significance for human health are found in industry. Both chlorine and hydrogen chloride are corrosive to most construction materials, as well as ...
Acrylonitrile - Environmental Health Criteria 28
(1983)
Acrylonitrile is a colourless, volatile, chemically reactive liquid; it does not occur as a natural product. The monomer is used world-wide, on a large scale, in the manufacture of polymers, fibres, and rubbers and as a ...
Guidelines on Studies in Environmental Epidemiology - Environmental Health Criteria 27
(1983)
The present monograph should serve as a useful guide to the conduct of epidemiological studies on the effects of non—biological agents on the health of human communities. An epidemiological investigation would involve not ...
Aquatic (Marine and Freshwater) Biotoxins - Environmental Health Criteria 37
(1984)
This document deals with outbreaks of certain human diseases associated with human exposure to compounds produced by algae. Predators feeding on the algae become contaminated by these compounds which, in this way, enter ...
Endosulfan - Environmental Health Criteria 40
(1984)
Technical endosulfan (6,7,8,9,10, 10-hexachloro-1,5,5a,6, 9,9a, hexahydro 6,9-methano-2,4,3-benodioxathiepin, 3-oxide) is a brown crystalline substance consisting of alpha- and beta-isomers in the ratio of approximately ...
Heptachlor - Environmental Health Criteria 38
(1984)
Heptachlor is a white crystalline solid with a mild camphor odour. It is used as an insecticide. Gas chromatography with electron capture detection is the method most commonly used for heptachlor determination. Heptachlor ...