Dioxins and Health Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors

by Schecter, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780470605295
• ISBN10: 0470605294
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This text offers the most respected book available for scientific information about dioxins, dibenzofurans, and PCBs. The new edition combines chapters on the classical dioxins and PCBs with new and emerging toxic pollutants. This edition also updates the science involved in the dioxin and PCB literature while adding new chapters on toxic pollutants such as brominated flame retardants, phthalates, and perfluorinated chemicals. A comprehensive resource, this book provides, in one volume, essential information about these compounds written by some of the most respected and cited scientists in their fields.

Author Biography

Arnold Schecter, MD, MPH, is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health. He is a preventive medicine physician-researcher who has studied the effects of dioxin and related chemical exposure around the world. Most recently, his research has focused on emerging POPs and endocrine disruptors in human milk, blood, and food. Dr. Schecter has served on EPA dioxin advisory panels and ATSDR/CDC dioxin, PCB, and PCDF review groups. Moreover, he has worked with the NIEHS, NIH, and NTP to communicate dioxin carcinogenicity assessments.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgment	p. xvi
About The Editor	p. xvii
Contributors	p. xix
List of Tables and Figures	p. xxiii
Persistent Organic Pollutants: An Overview	p. 1
Toxicity Equivalence Factors for Dioxin and Related Compounds	p. 37
Historic and Newer Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food	p. 53
Flame Retardants: Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and their Replacements	p. 89
Pharmacokinetics of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxln and Related Compounds	p. 109
Immunomodulation by Persistent Organic Pollutants	p. 171
Developmental Neurotoxicity of Dioxins	p. 193
Epidemiological Evidence on the Health Effects of Perfluorooctanoic Acid	p. 229
Polybrominated Dibenzo-F-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans	p. 255
Epidemiological Studies on Cancer and Exposure to Dioxins and Related Compounds	p. 303
Reproductive and Developmental Epidemiology of Dioxins	p. 359
Bisphenol A	p. 381
Phthalates: Human Exposure and Related Health Effects	p. 415
The Seveso Accident	p. 445
Agent Orange: Health and Environmental Issues in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos	p. 469
The Yusho and Yucheng Rice Oil Poisoning Incidents	p. 521
The Binghamton, New York, Electrical Transformer Fire Incident of 1981	p. 553
The Yushchenko Dioxin Poisoning: Chronology and Pharmacokinetics	p. 567
Pops and Human Health Risk Assessment	p. 579
Index	p. 619
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