1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143991403321

Titolo

Chemical safety [[electronic resource] ] : international reference manual / / edited by Mervyn Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim ; ; New York, : VCH, c1994

ISBN

1-281-75884-1

9786611758844

3-527-61603-9

3-527-61602-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (638 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RichardsonMervyn

Disciplina

363.19

363.738

Soggetti

Pollution - Environmental aspects

Pollution - Risk assessment

Chemicals - Safety measures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chemical Safety; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Section 1: Introductory Chapters; 1. Global Chemical Pollution - The UNEP View; 2. Principles of Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals; Section 2: Chemical Safety Information; 3. Information Retrieval, Validation and Interpretation; 4. UNIDO/lNTIB: An Energy and Environment Information System for Developing Countries; 5. International and National Governmental Information Activities Concerning the Environmental Effects of Chemicals; 6. Accessing Health and Safety Information; Section 3: Chemical Hazard Assessment

7. Environmental Hazard Assessment of Chemicals8. Adverse Health Effects of Environmental Chemicals: Indian Scenario; 9. Parental Occupation and Childhood Cancer; 10. Comparative Genetic Toxicity of Some Pesticides; 11. Intake of Organochlorine Compounds and Levels in Population Groups; 12. Heavy Metal Dietary Intake: A European Comparison; 13. COMPACT and ENACT Procedures in Predicting the Formation of Reactive Intermediates by Cytochrome P450 Metabolism;



Section 4: Monitoring; 14. Environmental Monitoring: Use of Luminescent Bacteria; 15. Cytogenetic Monitoring in Hungary

Section 5: Risk Assessment and Management16. Identification of Carcinogenic Risks - Qualitative Aspects; 17. New Approaches for the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals; 18. Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Contrast and Comparison - International Perspectives; 19. Assessment of Pesticide Action on Human Health and the Environment in the Ukraine; 20. Some Organochlorine Pollutants in the Water Environment and their Influence on Drinking Water Quality; 21. Regional Contamination of Soil and Biota with Heavy Metals Following an Explosion of an Ammunition Stockpile near Oštarije, Croatia

22. Assessment and Management of Environmental Exposure to Colorants23. Fate of Pesticides in the Environment and the Quality of Drinking Water in Relation to Human Health; 24. Chlororganic Pesticides and Atrazine in the Environment of Lithuania: Retrospective Analysis and Management Evaluation; 25. Management of Halide Mined Water Discharges; Section 6: Safety; 26. Safety in the Use of Chemicals at the Workplace; 27. Poisoning and Safety; 28. Some Information Regarding Chemical Safety Both in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in China; 29. Environmental Chemical Safety

30. Approaches to Identifying and Adverse Health Effects of Chemicals in UseSection 7: Legal Aspects; 31. Liability for Dangerous Industrial Activities and Damage to the Environment: Where Do We Stand After the Council of Europe Convention and the Commission Green Paper?; 32. Safety and Environmental Stewardship in the Single Market; 33. Chemical Regulation in Europe and the United States: International Implications; 34. Worldwide Regulatory Controls to Ensure Safety of Chemicals; 35. Epilogue; Annex 1 Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE)

Annex 2 OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals

Sommario/riassunto

How safe is safe enough? We live in a world that is totally dependent on chemicals, be they agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, colorants - it is vitally important that we adopt a sustainable strategy for an environment containing some 11 million chemicals. This book provides a pragmatic guide to the basic tools of chemical safety assessment, from information retrieval, through hazard and risk assessment to safety evaluation and legal aspects. It is truly global in coverage with contributors drawn from East and West, North and South. It covers natural and artificial hazards to the environm



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910317767303321

Titolo

Celiac Disease : From the Bench to the Clinic / / edited by Luis Rodrigo and Carlos Hernández-Lahoz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, United Kingdom : , : IntechOpen, , 2019

ISBN

1-83881-758-1

1-78985-050-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations some color

Disciplina

616.399

Soggetti

Celiac disease

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791736703321

Autore

Kushner Tony (Antony Robin Jeremy)

Titolo

Anglo-Jewry since 1066 [[electronic resource] ] : place, locality and memory / / Tony Kushner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press

New York, : distributed exclusively in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-78170-251-9

1-84779-478-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

941.004924

Soggetti

Jews - Great Britain - History

Jews - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Placing the 'local' -- Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels -- Winchester : constructing the city of memories -- Point of contestation : Jews in Portsmouth during the long eighteenth century -- Jewish emancipation and after : locality, brotherhood and the nature of tolerance -- Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914 -- Historicising the invisible : transmigrancy, memory and local identities -- Memory at the margins, matter out of place : hidden narratives of Jewish settlement and movement in the inter-war years.

Sommario/riassunto

*Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, locality and memory* is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval times to the present and is the first to explore the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place. The introductory chapters provide a theoretical overview focusing on the nature of local studies then moves into a chronological frame, starting with medieval Winchester, moving to early modern Portsmouth and then chapters covering the evolution of Anglo-Jewry from emancipation to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the impa