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Magnetic Fields - Environmental Health Criteria 69
(1987)
This document comprises a review of data of effects of magnetic field exposure on biological systems, pertinent to the evaluation of health risks for man. The purpose of the document is to provide an overview of the known ...
Propylene Oxide - Environmental Health Criteria 56
(1985)
Although only key references essential for the evaluation of the risks for human health and the environment are cited, this document is based on a comprehensive search of the available original scientific literature, while ...
Diaminotoluenes - Environmental Health Criteria 74
(1987)
Diaminotoluenes are synthetic aromatic aimines (total of 6 isomers). The isolated, purified isomers are colourless crystals, while the commercial isomeric mixtures are light yellow to tan (Meta-diaminotoluene), or light ...
Phosphine and Selected Metal Phosphides - Environmental Health Criteria 73
(1988)
Phosphine, or hydrogen phosphide, is a colourless gas which is odourless when pure, but the technical product usually has a foul odour, described as "fishy or "garlicky", because of the presence of substituted phosphines ...
Aldrin and Dieldrin - Environmental Health Criteria 91
(1989)
Aldrin and dieldrin are the common names of insecticides containing 95% HHDN and 85% HEOD, respectively. Throughout this monograph the names aldrin and dieldrin are used, although concentrations determined in the different ...
Lead: Environmental Aspects - Environmental Health Criteria 85
(1989)
Lead is a bluish or silvery-grey soft metal. With the exception of the nitrate, the chlorate, and, to a much lesser degree, the chloride, the salts of lead are poorly soluble in water.This document, although based on a ...
Pentachlorophenol - Environmental Health Criteria 71
(1987)
Pure pentachlorophenol (PCP) consists of light tan to white, needlelike crystals and is relatively volatile. It is soluble in most organic solvents, but practically insoluble in water at the slightly acidic pH generated ...
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 ...
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids - Environmental Health Criteria 80
(1988)
This document is aimed at focusing on a health menace that is insufficiently recognized, in order to evaluate the health risks on the basis of published data, and to draft a set of recommendations that would help in its ...
Vanadium - Environmental Health Criteria 81
(1988)
?letaliic vanadium does not occur in nature. Over 70 vanadium minerals are known, carnatite and vanadinite being the most important from the point of view of mining. Production of vanadium is linked with that of other ...