Toxicological Evaluations: Potential Health Hazards of Existing Chemicals

di BG Chemie (Autore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2011

As part of its "Programme for the prevention of health hazards caused by industrial substances", the Berufsge- nossenschaft der chemischen Industrie (BG Chemie, Em- ployment Accident Insurance Fund of the Chemical Indus- try) began in 1977 to investigate the toxicity of those chemicals which are widely used, have many different ap- plications and are suspected of being dangerous to health, in particular of having long-term effects. The in- vestigations consist of a literature search and - depending on the results - commissions of experimental studies. It is hoped by means of this testing to close gaps in our know- ledge and to increase the scientific validity of the required risk assessments. The results of the toxicological in- vestigations carried out by BG Chemie, and the resulting substance assessments have been published in German since 1987 in the form of 113 "Toxikologische Bewer- tungen" ("Toxicological Evaluations") up to now. In order to make this useful information internation- ally available, BG Chemie began in October 1990 to pub- lish them as a book series in English, of which the fifth vol- ume (containing 12 individual evaluations) is presented here. Therefore for 72 existing chemicals "Toxicological Evaluations" are available in English at the moment, a fur- ther 38 are in preparation and will be published soon.

• Autore: BG Chemie
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Collana: Toxicological Evaluations
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 193 p.
• Dimensioni: 205 x 133 mm
• EAN: 9783642848629

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