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Chemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3

dc.contributorScience Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.contributor.otherWorld Health Organizationen_US
dc.contributor.otherInternational Labour Organizationen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGlobalen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T10:06:51Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T10:06:51Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/27887
dc.descriptionThere has been a dramatic increase in the use of chemicals in recent years, many of them new compounds and mixtures whose toxicological properties have not previously been studied and which might prove to be harmful to humans. Over the last fifty years several substances previously thought to be inert or harmless in humans have been found to be carcinogenic (e.g. asbestos minerals) or toxic to the reproductive process (e.g. thalidomide). A wide and increasing range of compounds have been shown to be mutagenic or carcinogenic in animal studies. Consequently, in spite of our limited knowledge of the hazards to humans associated with many substances, most governments in the developed world, as part of their function to protect their populations, have developed legislation aimed at protecting both the working and the general population. This has usually required the management of enterprises to eliminate or at least to minimise any risks associated with their work both to their workers and to the general population.en_US
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dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectdisaster preparednessen_US
dc.subjectrisk assessmenten_US
dc.subjectrisk managementen_US
dc.subjectecological researchen_US
dc.subjectmercuryen_US
dc.subjectmetalen_US
dc.subjectrespiratory diseaseen_US
dc.subjectchemicalen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental degradationen_US
dc.titleChemical Risk Assessment: Human Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment and Ecological Risk Assessment - Training Module No. 3en_US


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