... worksite health promotion. The assessment of health risks with feedback. Am J Prev Med2010, 38:S237-S262.10. Anderson DR, Staufacker MJ: The impact of worksite-based health risk appraisal on health- related ... assessed risk with health- behaviour constructs, tailored health recom-mendations are generated. These are presented to theparticipant integrated within a web-based health actionplan. Each health ... the literature. Am J Health Promot 1996, 10:499-508.11. Cowdery JE, Suggs LS, Parker S: Application of a Web-based tailored health riskassessment in a work-site population. Health Promot Pract2007,...
... standard risk assessment. In the present article, we give practical recommendations for addressing these questions in population level risk assessments. Keywords: population models; risk assessment; ... This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon.Population level risk assessment: practical ... introduce population modelling in pesticide riskassessment by either the academia or the industry [1-6]. The main advantage of using population models in risk assessments is seen in reaching a higher...
... bioavailability and bio-accumulation, more information undoubtedly provides a more robust mechanismfor impact assessment, and should allow for more informed decision making bymanagement, which ... sediment organic carbon, Environ.Toxicol. Chem., 15, 2187, 1996.77. Clarkson, T.W., Human health risks from methylmercury in fish, Environ. Toxicol.Chem., 9, 821, 1990.78. Magos, L., Physiology ... but often only in a specific chemical form. For example, although inorganic mercury (Hg) is toxic to organisms at low concen-trations, it is the organic form of Hg, monomethylmercury (MMHg),...
... ecological riskassessment (ERA) thatconsists of four phases: (1) problem formulation, (2) exposure assessment, (3) effects assessment, and (4) risk characterization. 6 The problem formulation ... major question for this risk assessment is: “Do current concentrations of persistent organochlorine contaminants pose risksto the health of marine mammals?” 9.4 EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT 9.4.1 E XPOSURE ... used in this assessment. â2002 CRC Press LLC phase, the results of the exposure and effects assessment are used to estimate risk to the assessment end points identified in problem formulation,...
... (Ed.), Ecological Risk Assessment . Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. 247–274.Barnthouse, L. W. 1996. Guide for Developing Data Quality Objectives for Ecological Risk Assessment at DOE Oak ... other lines of evidence, to estimate risks. Eachline of evidence is qualitatively different from any others used in the risk characterization. In ecological risk assessments of contaminated sites, ... (Florida Department of EnvironmentalProtection). problem formulation: The phase in an ecological riskassessment in which thegoals of the assessment are defined and the methods for achieving thosegoals...
... LLC VOLUME 1MetalsCHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT HANDBOOK OF Health Hazards to Humans,Plants, and Animalsâ 2000 by CRC Press LLC CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT HANDBOOK OF Health Hazards to Humans,Plants, ... manuals, etc. 2. Hazardous substances — Riskassessment — Handbooks, manuals,etc. 3. Environmental chemistry — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Environmental riskassessment — Handbooks, manuals, etc. ... sediments spiked with radiocadmium wastransformed from potentially available organic forms to more mobile and readily available dissolvedand exchangeable forms (i.e., increased bioavailability)...
... 1979). Teratogenicmalformations — including poor bone ossification, hydronephrosis, and hemorrhaging — occur inrats when nickel is administered during organogenesis, and these malformations are maximal ... half-time persistence in human lung for insoluble forms of nickel is 330 days(Sevin 1980).The excretory routes for nickel in mammals depend on the chemical forms of nickel and themode of nickel intake. ... 1987. Nickel. Adv. Modern Envi-ron. Toxicol. 11:145-183; World Health Organization(WHO). 1991. Nickel. Environ. Health Crit. 108. 383 pp. â 2000 by CRC Press LLC solubility of...
... appears warranted on the effects on fish and wildlifeof the numerous carbofuran formulations used, especially liquid spray formulations (flowables),and on applications to crops other than rice, such ... implemented —and urging the United States to also ban the liquid formulations (as quoted in Mineau 1993).Carbofuran flowable formulations are considered hazardous to the burrowing owl (Athene ... the terminal residues produced are polarand formed by chemical processes normally considered as steps in metabolic detoxication.Flowable and granular formulations of carbofuran have histories...
... (Allison and Her-manutz 1977).Granular formulations were especially hazardous to seed-eating birds; ingestion of fewer than5 granules of a Diazinon 14G formulation could be lethal (Hill and Camardese ... small-particle (2 to 5 àm diameter) diflubenzuronformulations, such as WP-25%, degrade rapidly, usually in 2 to 8 days (Cunningham 1986). Larger-particle sand-granule formulations, developed for use in mosquito ... Sci. Health B26:491-498.Fleming, W.J. and S.P. Bradbury. 1981. Recovery of cholinesterase activity in mallard ducklings administeredorganophosphorus pesticides. Jour. Toxicol. Environ. Health...
... rats. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 58:133-140.U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). 1995. Toxicological Profile for Mirex and Chlordecone. U.S. Dept. Health Human Serv., PHS, Agen. Toxic Subst. Dis. Regis. ... early developmental stages than to juveniles or adults, and more toxic in formulations containingwetting agents than in formulations without these agents (Summers 1980; Arunlertarce and Kawatsu1992). ... NOAA/OMPA.Table 21.5 Temporal Persistence of Residues for 1 Year after Applications of Mirex 4X Formulation to Bahia Grass Pastures (Values represent rounded percentages recovered of the original...
... at theoretical risk, followed by brushtail possums,pigs, and various rodents and birds (McIlroy 1986). More data are needed on bait consumptionrates of nontarget mammals if risk from 1080-poisoning ... studies may overestimate the risk to nontarget species from 1080 baiting. Thenorthern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), for example, was found to be at highest theoretical risk fromaerial baiting programs, ... countries,including India, many South and Central American countries, Eastern bloc countries in the formerSoviet Union, and many African countries (Kucklick et al. 1993; Voldner and Li 1993; USPHS1994)....
... selenized yeastAll forms of selenium caused significant increases in plasma and hepatic glutathione peroxidase activities. Seleno-L-methionine at 30 mg/kg ration was the most toxic form, resulting ... concentrations and frequency of developmental malformations forlargemouth bass and bluegill over the range 1 to 80 mg Se/kg DW tissue and 0% to 70% deformities.In 1992, selenium residues had declined ... Environ. Health 27:263-271.Hoffman, D.J., G.H. Heinz, L.J. LeCaptain, and C.M. Bunck. 1991a. Subchronic hepatotoxicity of selenom-ethionine ingestion in mallard ducks. Jour. Toxicol. Environ. Health...
... risk assessments and for developing generic environmental criteria (e.g., EPA’s ambient water quality criteria). They are not recommended for use alone in a detailed (e.g., baseline) risk assessment. ... for Chemical Risk Assessment) . Moreover, the models that we selected for further development and use are not necessarily the only models that would be useful for ecological risk assessments ... abundance, risk of decline in abundance, risk of extinction, time to extinction, time to decline, harvested biomassComments: Has high realism, relevance, and flexibility and can be used for risk assessment...