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Dioxin
Greater Health Risks With Indigenous Peoples Recent studies have found that Indigenous Peoples are at greater risk for toxic illness due to ... one's body burden of dioxin is through breast feeding. Children bear the highest exposures. Dioxin can cross the placenta, during the most important part of child development. The ...
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Kitchen Biodiesel
Eye Contact: Corrosive! Causes irritation of eyes, and with greater exposures it can cause burns that may result in permanent ... System: A system of local and/or general exhaust is recommended to keep employee exposures below the Airborne Exposure Limits. Local exhaust ventilation is generally preferred because it can ...
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Reducing Toxic Threats -- WA State Deptartment of Ecology
Infants and children are a special concern -- they tend to have greater exposures because pound for pound, children breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food ...
www.ecy.wa.gov
Pop-up - Learn More - Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
Severe lung swelling and death, due to short-term exposures greater than 300 ppb. Activity level ... increase susceptibility to ozone-induced decreases in lung function. (Decreases in lung function are greater in asthmatics concurrently exposed to ozone and pollen than for either pollutant alone.) ...
www.k12science.org
WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Indoor exposures are of greater concern because concentrations are often much higher and greater time is spent indoors by vulnerable population sub-groups, including ...
www.lboro.ac.uk
Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances | US EPA
TSCA Section 21 petition, EPA is launching a broad effort to gain a greater scientific understanding of the potential health risks of the use of formaldehyde in pressed wood ... new measures in place to better protect children, pets, and wildlife from thousands of accidental exposures that occur every year from rodenticides. These practical and low cost measures provide protection while ...
epa.gov
Occupational health HFC-32
The acute toxicity of difluoromethane is very low, the 4-hr LC50 being greater than 52% in air (3). Also, it is not mutagenic in vitro (9-11) or ... dogs, an exposure level of 350,000 ppm (35%) did not cause a response (4). Exposures at levels up to 50,000 ppm, the highest level tested, did not cause toxicity ...
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Review of OECD Declaration on Risk Reduction for Lead
International Lead Management Center or the OECD could inspire greater efforts? FURTHER DECLARE THAT THE OECD SHOULD: … (9) Review progress by Member countries ... support on this issue. j. Establish strategies, including public information programmes, to abate significant exposures arising from the historic use of lead-containing materials in buildings. Comment – there ...
www.lead.org.au
ENN: Handling Pesticides Associated With Greater Asthma Risk In Farm Women
From: American Thoracic Society Published January 3, 2008 10:13 AM Handling Pesticides Associated With Greater Asthma Risk In Farm Women RELATED ARTICLES Pesticide Exposure Tied to Asthma in Farmers ... will better evaluate the links between pesticide exposures and asthma. "We want to characterize the clinical aspects of this disease, as well as lifetime exposures to agents that may either protect ...
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Our Stolen Future: Background exposures to PCBs impair immune system function
PCBs and dioxins persist into childhood and might be associated with a greater susceptibility to infectious diseases." Their observations are broadly consistent with several other studies ... breast-feeding." Their observation that decreased allergies and wheezing were associated with PCB exposures is intriguing. The interpretation they offer is hypothetical, that the increased number of ...
ourstolenfuture.org
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