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Acrylamide Health and Safety Guide
(World Health Organization, 1991)
The purpose of a Health and Safety Guide is to facilitate the application of these guidelines in national chemical safety programmes. The first three sections of a Health and Safety Guide highlight the relevant technical ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fenvalerate - Environmental Health Criteria 95
(1990)
Fenvalerate is a potent insecticide that has been in use since 1976. It is an ester of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyric acid and alpha-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol, but lacks a cyclopropane ring. However, in terms ...
Permethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 94
(1990)
Permethrin was first synthesized in 1973 and marketed in 1977 as a photostable pyrethroid. Approximately 600 tonnes per year of permethrin is at present used world-wide, mostly for agricultural purposes. It has a potential ...
d-Phenothrin - Environmental Health Criteria 96
(1990)
d-Phenothrin has been in use since 1977. It is estimated that 70-80 tonnes of d-phenothrin are used annually worldwide, mainly to control noxious insects in the household and insects of public health concern and to protect ...
Tetramethrin - Environmental Health Criteria 98
(1990)
Tetramethrin was first synthesized in 1964 and first marketed in 1965. Chemically, it is an ester of chrysan-themic acid (2,2-imethyl-3-(2,2-dimethylvinyl)-cyclopro-panecarboxylic acid) with 3,4,5,6-tetrahydrophth ...
2-Propanol - Environmental Health Criteria 103
(1990)
2-Propanol is a colourless highly flammable liquid with an odour resembling that of a mixture of ethanol and acetone. The compound is completely miscible with water, ethanol, acetone, chloroform, and benzene. Analytical ...
Beryllium - Environmental Health Criteria 106
(1990)
Beryllium is a steel-grey, brittle metal, existing naturally only as the 9Be isotope. Its compounds are divalent. Beryllium
has several unique properties. It is the lightest of all solid and chemically-stable substances, ...
1-Propanol - Environmental Health Criteria 102
(1990)
1-Propanol is a colourless, highly flammable liquid that is volatile at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. It is miscible with water and organic solvents. Analytical methods for propanol include gas ...