Environmental Toxicology

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ISBN: 9781845641146 | 1845641140
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/2008

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"This volume contains the contributions presented at the 2nd Conference on Environmental Toxicology, which was held in Granada, Spain in 2008. The papers cover the following subject areas: Risk Assessment; Human Health Risk; Effluent Toxicity; Bioaccumulation of Chemicals; Biodegredation and Bioremediation; Biological Effects Monitoring; Laboratory Tests and Validation; Ecotoxicity of Emerging Chemicals; New Trends in Environmental Toxicology."--BOOK JACKET.

Spanish influenza: analogue for potential ramifications of bioterrorism	p. 1
Risk assessment
Evaluation of water quality in public drinking fountains	p. 13
Environmental impact of soluble oils	p. 23
Human health risk
Developing corporate environment and health strategy: review of existing corporate citizenship (CC) models	p. 35
Infant exposure to persistent organochlorine compounds is higher in Denmark than in Finland	p. 45
Different technologies for the treatment of PAH contaminated sediments and consequences on human health individual risk	p. 53
Agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) and generate co-benefits	p. 61
Arsenic toxicity and carcinogenesis: a public health risk assessment and management approach	p. 71
Effluent toxicity
Toxicity assessment of effluents	p. 83
Study of phytotoxic properties of sewage sludge stabilised by alkaline mediums	p. 93
Evolution of acute toxicity of non-ionic surfactants over the biodegradation process	p. 101
Effects of hydraulic retention time, temperature, and MLSS concentration on the effluent quality of a membrane bioreactor	p. 109
Toxicity reduction evaluation (TRE) procedure for identification of toxic substances in landfill leachate	p. 117
Bioaccumulation of chemicals
Alkylphenols and bisphenol-A and its chlorinated derivatives in Adipose tissue of children	p. 129
Assessment of the lead and cadmium contamination levels in the Lublin Region wetlands using mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) as a contamination vector	p. 139
Accumulation of heavy metals in Azadiractha indica from Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria	p. 149
Classical and novel organohalogen compounds (PCBs and PBDEs) in hake (M. merluccius, L.) from the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts (France)	p. 157
Biodegradation and bioremediation
When can surfactants enhance hydrocarbon biodegradation in oil biotreatments?	p. 169
Detoxification of aliphatic and aromatic organic pollutants by means of catalytic wet-air oxidation	p. 179
Ex-situ bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sewage sludge	p. 189
Reducing copper toxicity by drinking coffee	p. 199
Biological effects monitoring
In vitro toxicity of indoor fungi from dwellings in Slovakia: testing on the isolated lung cells	p. 211
Determining the suitability of Ceriodaphnia rigaudii as a toxicity test species	p. 219
In vitro toxicity of indoor moulds from Slovak dwellings	p. 227
Lung function parameters and MVOC	p. 235
Mortality of silkworms due to air pollution: environmental indicators induced by ecological stress	p. 241
Laboratory tests and validation
Surface water toxicity assessment by ecotoxicological and in vitro toxicologocical assays
Application of bioassays and soil column test for toxicity evaluation of selected pesticides	p. 263
Optimization and validation of a chromatographic methodology for the quantification of PAHs in drinking water samples	p. 271
Toxicity of nonionic surfactants	p. 281
Ecotoxicity of emerging chemicals
Androgenic activity of effluent from forty-five municipal waste water treatment plants in Victoria, Australia	p. 293
Acute sublethal effects of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) on the European eel Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758)	p. 305
New trends in environmental toxicology
Classification, analysis and interaction of solid airborne particles in urban environments	p. 317
Role of the chemistry of soil organic matter on the sorption of diuron	p. 327
Author Index	p. 337
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