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Section/SPIG: Occupational Health and Safety

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"Dioxins and Health, Second Edition"
Edited by Arnold Schecter and Thomas A. Gasiewicz
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication Date: June 2003
$150.00; Cloth; ISBN 0-471-43355-1

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Book Description

Studies have shown that dioxins and structural analogues cause immune alterations, nervous system effects, and cancer in humans. Additionally, these ubiquitous toxins have been linked to endocrine alterations, producing diabetes mellitus in adults and thyroid and sex hormone changes in newborns. Updating the acclaimed First Edition, "Dioxins and Health," the Second Edition covers the latest major scientific findings on the most potent, well known, and long-lasting of the persistent organic pollutants (POPS). The Second Edition, which incorporates significant advances in dioxin research made in human and animal epidemiology, contains chapters on such wide-ranging areas as: the health risk assessment of dioxin-like compounds; pharmacokinetics of dioxins and related compounds; experimental toxicology, reproductive and development epidemiology; chemical, environmental and health aspects of the Seveso; the Yusho rice oil poisoning incident; and agent orange in Vietnam. Toxicologists, environmental, toxicologist epidemiologists, environmental chemists, regulators, and environmental attorneys will find "Dioxins and Health, Second Edition" to be an invaluable resource.