Human Health Risk Articles & Analysis
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Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Regional Screening Levels (RSLs) for human health risk assessment at hazardous waste sites and permitted facilities. ...
Soil Generic Assessment Criteria for Human Health Risk Assessment is a technique used to examine the dangers which result from the release of pollutants into the land. ...
Widespread exposure to multiple pollutants and chemicals and concerns about long-term damage to human health together imply the need for more integral and precautionary approaches. Given the complex links between environmental challenges, identification of environmental risks to human health and well-being ...
We also know that poor air quality can have a dramatic effect on our health and well-being as well as on the environment. Air pollution can trigger and aggravate respiratory diseases; it can damage forests, acidify soils and waters, reduce crop yields and corrode buildings. ...
This paper introduces a special issue on "Small-scale gold mining, mercury, the environment and human health: perspectives on rural Ghana". The papers presented provide a range of perspectives on the mercury pollution problem in Ghana's small-scale gold-mining sector and reflect on the progress made to date towards resolving it. The aim, in providing fresh ...
The potential for hormesis to affect regulatory approaches and several basic processes used in formulating risk assessment parameters, such as study design, interpretation of dose-response information, and extrapolation of toxicity values, is examined. The potential ramifications for human health risk assessment and ...
This article aims to review and to demonstrate the effect of mercury on the human health and environment. Mercury is one of the 12 toxic pollutants identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and can be toxic at low levels in the environment. ...
Modern society is exposed daily to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by home/environmental human activity. The question of the possible risk to health by long-term exposure to weak fields became a concern in that even small health effects could have profound public health implications. ...
In 1990, a WHO (Europe) review group recommended that a daily intake of not more than 10 pg 2,3,7,8 TCDD /kg body weight would give an acceptable level of protection for human health. Whereas, the US EPA advocated a daily intake of less than 0.006 pg TCDD/kg body weight. In 1998, the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (WHO-ECEH) and ...