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      Toxicological Evaluation of Certain Veterinary Drug Residues in Food: Seventieth Meeting of the Joint Fao/Who Expert Committee on Food Additives

      World Health Organization,World Health Organization

      IPCS–International Programme on Chemical Safety.

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      Building a Diverse Work Force: Scientists & Engineers in off

      No reliable acute-exposure1 standards have been established for the particular purpose of protecting soldiers from toxic exposures to chemical warfare (CW) agents. Some human-toxicity estimates are available for the most…

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      Re-evaluation of Drinking-Water Guidelines for Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate

      Subcommittee on the Toxicity of Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate,Committee on Toxicology,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies

      Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate (DIMP) is a groundwater contaminant at the US Army’s Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado. DIMP is a by-product created from the manufacture and detoxification of the nerve agent…

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      Toxicological Risks of Selected Flame-Retardant Chemicals

      Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Toxicology, Subcommittee on Flame-Retardant Chemicals, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Life Sciences

      Ignition of upholstered furniture by small open flames from matches, cigarette lighters, and candles is one of the leading causes of residential-fire deaths in the United States. These fires accounted…

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      Review of the U.S. Navy’s Exposure Standard for Manufactured Vitreous Fibers

      Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Toxicology,Subcommittee on Manufactured Vitreous Fibers,National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies

      In 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) was asked to conduct an independent review of the Navy’s toxicological assessment of Manufactured vitreous fibers (MVF) and to evaluate the scientific validity…

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      Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Chemical Agents: Volume 1

      Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,Committee on Toxicology,Panel on Anticholinergic Chemicals

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      Combined Exposures to Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide in Army Operations: Final Report

      Committee on Toxicology,Committee on Exposures to Hydrogen Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide in Army Operations

      Presents several conclusions and recommendations, including the use of alternative instrumentation for monitoring gas, conducting experiments on human subjects, and seeking advice from groups involved with personnel training and field…

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      Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals

      Subcommittee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels,Committee on Toxicology,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 resulted in the death of around 2,000 residents living near chemical plants and irreversible injuries to more than 20,000 other residents. This title outlines acute…

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      Review of the Styrene Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee to Review the Styrene Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      Many people in the United States are exposed to styrene. Sources of environmental exposure included food (from migration of styrene from polymer packaging materials), cigarette smoke, vehicle exhaust and other…

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      Review of the Formaldehyde Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee to Review the Formaldehyde Assessment in the National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens

      Review of: Report on carcinogens. 12th ed. 2011.

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      Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals

      Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Toxicology,Subcommittee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels,National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies

      The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 resulted in the death of around 2,000 residents living near chemical plants and irreversible injuries to more than 20,000 other residents. This title outlines acute…

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      Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants

      Subcommittee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      US Navy personnel in submarines are in an enclosed and isolated environment for days or weeks at a time when at sea. This work presents a review of the National…

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      Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update

      Subcommittee to Update the 1999 Arsenic in Drinking Water Report,Committee on Toxicology,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      Evaluates epidemiological studies and experimental data that provides information on how and at what level arsenic in drinking water can lead to cancer. This report concludes that men and women…

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      Critical Aspects of EPA’s IRIS Assessment of Inorganic Arsenic: Interim Report

      Committee on Inorganic Arsenic,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. This title evaluates critical scientific issues in assessing cancer and noncancer effects…

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      Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions

      Committee on Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models…

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      Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment

      Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment,National Research Council

      Looks at the science behind the ominous prospect of ‘estrogen mimics’ threatening health and well-being, from the level of ecosystems and populations to individual people and animals. This book evaluates…

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      Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure To Chemical Agents, Volume 2: Cholinesterase Reactivators, Psychochemicals and Irritants and Vesicants

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Toxicology,National Academy of Sciences

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      Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Science for EPA's Future

      In anticipation of future environmental science and engineering challenges and technologic advances, EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the overall capabilities of the agency to develop, obtain…

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      Review of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Process

      Committee To Review The IRIS Process,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is a program within the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that is responsible for developing toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. An IRIS assessment contains…

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      Drinking Water and Health,: Volume 2

      Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,Assembly of Life Sciences,Safe Drinking Water Committee,National Academy of Sciences

      Part of the Drinking Water and Health series, this text contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines various practices…

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      Phthalates and Cumulative Risk Assessment: The Task Ahead

      Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates,National Research Council

      People are exposed to a variety of chemicals throughout their daily lives. To protect public health, regulators use risk assessments to examine the effects of chemical exposures. This book provides…

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      Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment

      Committee on Health Impact Assessment,National Research Council

      Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation’s health problems and enhancing public well-being. Some policies and programs historically not recognized as relating to…

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      Scientific Evaluation of Biolo

      Committee On Endangered And Th

      During 2001, a severe drought occurred in the Klamath River Basin. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) determined that the newly issued biological opinions and their RPAs must prevail…

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      Science and the Endangered Species Act

      National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act

      Focuses on the science underlying the Endangered Species Act ESA and offers recommendations for making the act more effective. This book provides an overview of what scientists know about extinction…

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      Assessing the Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene: Key Scientific Issues

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene

      Trichloroethylene is a chlorinated solvent widely used as a degreasing agent in industrial and manufacturing settings. This title identifies and assesses the key scientific issues relevant to analyzing the human…

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      Models in Environmental Regulatory Decision Making

      Committee on Models in the Regulatory Decision Process,National Research Council

      Many regulations issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are based on the results of computer models. This book presents guidelines and principles for improving agency models and decision-making…

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      Florida Bay Research Programs

      Committee On Restorationof The

      This report is a product of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem (CROGEE), which provides consensus advice to the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. The Task…

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      Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects

      Committee on Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy Projects,National Research Council

      The generation of electricity by wind energy has the potential to reduce environmental impacts caused by the use of fossil fuels. This work includes a case study of the mid-Atlantic…

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      Copper in Drinking Water

      Committee on Copper in Drinking Water,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The National Research Council was requested to form a committee to review the scientific validity of the EPA’s maximum contaminant level goal for copper in drinking water. This book outlines…

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      Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking Water

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Toxicology,Subcommittee on Nitrate and Nitrite in Drinking Water

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      Scientific Review of the Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin from the Office of Management and Budget

      Committee to Review the OMB Risk Assessment Bulletin,National Research Council

      Risk assessments are often used by the federal government to estimate the risk the public may face from such things as exposure to a chemical or the potential failure of…

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      Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 1: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Environmental Epidemiology

      Presents the results of studies of hazardous wastes in the air, water, soil, and food, and examines the potential of biological markers in health risk assessment. This volume is of…

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      Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion

      Committee to Assess the Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion,National Research Council

      Evaluates the potential health effects of perchlorate. This book recommends using clinical studies of iodide uptake in humans as the basis for determining a reference dose, and suggests that daily…

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      Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects

      Committee on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune,National Research Council

      In the early 1980s, two water-supply systems on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina were found to be contaminated with the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene…

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      Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Human and Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century

      From the use of personal products to our consumption of food, water, and air, people are exposed to a wide array of agents each day-many with the potential to affect…

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      Indoor Pollutants

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,Committee on Indoor Pollutants

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      Genetic Status of Atlantic Salmon in Maine: Interim Report

      Ocean Studies Board,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Atlantic Salmon in Maine,National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies

      Atlantic salmon in Maine, once abundant but now seriously depleted, were listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) in November 2000. The listing covers the wild fish…

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      Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards

      Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Most people associate fluoride with the practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water supplies for the prevention of tooth decay. However, fluoride can also enter public water systems from…

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      Review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Draft IRIS Assessment of Formaldehyde

      Committee to Review EPA's Draft IRIS Assessment of Formaldehyde,National Research Council

      Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor air, and everyone is exposed to formaldehyde at some concentration daily. Formaldehyde is used to produce a wide array of products, particularly building…

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      Review of California’s Risk-Assessment Process for Pesticides

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee to Review California's Risk-Assessment Process for Pesticides

      The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) conducts human health risk assessments as part of its mission to ensure the protection of workers and public health in the state. The…

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      Controlled Human Inhalation-Exposure Studies at EPA

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Assessing Toxicologic Risks to Human Subjects Used in Controlled Exposure Studies of Environmental Pollutants

      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA’s pursuit of that goal includes a variety of research activities…

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      Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts: A Workshop Summary

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Emerging Issues and Data on Environmental Contaminants

      Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts

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      Review of Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research

      Committee for Review of the Federal Strategy to Address Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials,Committee on Toxicology,National Research Council

      Intends to find serious weaknesses in the government’s plan for research on the potential health and environmental risks posed by nanomaterials, which are used in consumer goods and industry. This…

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      Drinking Water and Health

      Safe Drinking Water Committee,Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,National Research Council

      Part of the Drinking Water and Health series, this text contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines various practices…

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      Monitoring Human Tissues for Toxic Substances

      Committee on National Monitoring of Human Tissues,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

      The National Human Monitoring Program (NHMP) identifies concentrations of specific chemicals in human tissues. This volume evaluates the contemporary activities of the NHMP; identifies important scientific, technical, and programmatic issues…

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