| Description |
1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Risk Assessment -- Literatures Cited -- Chapter 2: The Risk Assessment-Risk Management Paradigm -- Definition of Risk -- Historical Perspectives -- The Red Book -- The Objectives of Risk Assessment: Statutes and Programs -- Biological End Points -- A Framework for Regulatory Decision-Making -- Adding Context for Risk Assessments -- The Risk Commission -- Special Challenges for Risk Assessment of Chemicals |
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Data and Testing -- Extrapolation -- Variation and Uncertainty -- Emerging Areas in Chemical Risk Assessment -- Contributions from All Public Health Sciences to Eco-Genetics and Risk Assessment -- Risk Management-Risk Communication Approaches (See Chapter 17) -- Thought Questions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Risk Assessment and Regulatory Decision-Making in Environmental Health -- Introduction -- Food Constituents and Contaminants -- Food Safety History: Origins of Federal Food Laws -- A Brief Summary of Food Safety Risk Assessment -- The Modern Food Supply |
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Food Additives: The Example of Non-nutritive Sweeteners -- GRAS Substances -- Veterinary Drug Residues -- Substances Formed by Processing -- Crop Protection Chemicals -- Food Contaminants of Industrial Origin -- The Organics -- Heavy Metals -- Food Contaminants of Industrial and Natural Origin -- Food Allergies and Intolerances -- Mycotoxins -- Microbial Pathogens -- Genetically Modified Organisms, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Food Safety -- Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 4: Exposure Assessment: The Ways We Measure Exposure and Its Application to Risk Assessment -- Introduction |
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Basic Concepts and Key Components of Exposure Assessment -- Exposure -- Exposure Assessment -- Dose -- Role of Exposure Assessment in Risk Assessment -- Overview of the Exposure Assessment Process -- Step 1. Planning, Scoping, and Problem Formulation -- Step 2. Exposure Setting Characterization -- Step 3. Exposure Pathway Identification -- Step 4. Exposure Quantification -- Step 5. Uncertainty Assessment and Exposure Assessment Summary -- Approaches in Assessing and Quantifying the Exposure -- Direct Measurements Point-of-Contact Method -- Indirect Estimation -- Scenario Evaluation |
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Exposure Reconstruction -- Biomonitoring and Reverse Dosimetry -- Apply Exposure Assessment to Estimate Risk -- References -- Chapter 5: Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Environmental Chemicals throughout the Life Stages: Requirements and Issues to Consider for Birth Cohort Studies -- Introduction -- Exposure Assessment Methods and Their Uses -- Questionnaires and Ecologic Measures -- Direct Environmental Measurements -- Biological Monitoring or Biomonitoring -- Exposure Modeling -- Biomonitoring and the Toxicokinetic Process of Environmental Chemicals |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The General Behavior of Chemicals in the Body |
| Subject |
Environmental health.
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Health risk assessment.
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Public health.
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Public Health
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public health.
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Environmental health
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Health risk assessment
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Public health
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Toscano, William A
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Meng, Qingyu
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Kaden, Debra A
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| ISBN |
9781000816204 |
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1000816206 |
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