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Lead: Environmental Aspects - Environmental Health Criteria 85
(1989)
Lead is a bluish or silvery-grey soft metal. With the exception of the nitrate, the chlorate, and, to a much lesser degree, the chloride, the salts of lead are poorly soluble in water.This document, although based on a ...
2, 4 - Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-d): Environmental Aspects - Environmental Health Criteria 84
(1989)
2,4-D is a selective herbicide which kills broad-leaved plants but not grasses or conifers. Its chemical structure is a modification of a
naturally occurring plant hormone. 2,4-D is available as the free acid but is ...
Mercury - Environmental Health Criteria 1
(1976)
As stated on page 5, the purpose of the criteria documents is to compile, review, and evaluate available information on the biological effects of pollutants and other environmental factors that may influence man's health, ...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Terphenyls - Executive Summary. Environmental Health Criteria 2
(1976)
Polychlorinated hbiphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs) are complex organic chemicals used widely for their insulating properties. They are liquids of various densities containing chlorine, hydrogen and ...
Environmental Health Criteria 9: DDT and its Derivatives
(1979)
Although the ecological aspects of DDT, including its possible accumulation in some components of the food chain, its metabolism in micro-organisms and plants, as well as its effects on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems ...
Arsenic - Environmental Health Criteria 18
(1981)
Arsenic is a ubiquitous element with metalloid properties. Its chemistry is complex and there are many different compounds of both inorganic and organic arsenic. In nature, it is widely distributed in a number of minerals, ...
Selected Petroleum Products - Environmental Health Criteria 20
(1982)
The purpose of this document is to review and evaluate available information on the biological effects of some petroleum products, and to provide a scientific basis for decisions aimed at the protection of human health ...
Vanadium - Environmental Health Criteria 81
(1988)
?letaliic vanadium does not occur in nature. Over 70 vanadium minerals are known, carnatite and vanadinite being the most important from the point of view of mining. Production of vanadium is linked with that of other ...
2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) - Environmental Health Criteria 29
(1984)
All exposure determinations and risk assessments ultimately depend on accurate chemical analyses, and therefore some critical aspects of analysis for 2,4-D residues have been included in the present document. The available ...
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 1996-1997
(1997)
The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard was approved by the 28th World Health Assembly in 1975 and has since gained wide acceptance. When it was published in the WHO Chronicle, 22, 397-401 (1975), an ...