1st Edition

Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment Health Hazards to Humans, Plants, and Animals, Three Volume Set

    4141 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Written over a period of 17 years, the Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment exhaustively examines and analyzes the world literature on chemicals entering the environment from human activities. The three volumes cover chemicals recommended by environmental specialists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other resource managers. The choices were based on the real or potential impact of each contaminant and on the knowledge available about their mitigation.
    The information for each chemical includes source and use; physical, chemical, and metabolic properties; concentrations in field collections of abiotic materials and living organisms; deficiency effects; lethal and sublethal effects; and proposed regulatory criteria for the protection of human health and sensitive natural resources. Each chapter selectively reviews and synthesizes the technical literature on a specific priority contaminant and its effects on the environment.
    Successful risk assessment relies heavily on extensive and well-documented databases. They often include too much - or too little - information about too many chemicals. Of the hundreds of thousands of chemicals discharged into the environment, only a small number have sufficient information to attempt preliminary risk assessment. Sold only as a three volume set, the Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment provides you with the exact amount of information you need in a single resource.

    VOLUME 1 - Metals
    Cadmium
    Chromium
    Copper
    Lead
    Mercury
    Nickel
    Silver
    Tin
    Zinc

    VOLUME 2 - Organics
    Acrolein
    Atrazine
    Carbofluran
    Chlordane
    Chlorpyrifos
    Cyanide
    Diazinon
    Diflubenzuron
    Dioxins
    Famphur
    Fenvalerate
    Mirex
    Paraquat
    Pentachlorophenol
    Polychlorinated Biphenyls
    Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    Sodium Monofluoroacetate
    Toxaphane

    VOLUME 3 - Metaloids, Radiation, Index
    Arsenic
    Boron
    Molybdenum
    Selenium
    Radiation
    Index

    Biography

    Ronald Eisler

    "I believe that nearly everyone engaged in ecotoxicology or ecotoxicological risk assessments is acquainted with Ronald Eisler's Contaminant Hazard Reviews which were published between 1985 and 1999…Those reviews have now been updated by Dr. Eisler and published as a three-volume 'handbook'…I found the original reviews to be handy and reliable references, and I expect to frequently consult these new volumes."
    -Glenn Suter, SETAC Reviews Editor

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