... highest HERT values as candidates for carcinogenicity testing These include solanine and chaconine, the main alkaloids in potatoes, which are cholinesterase inhibitors that can be detected in the blood ... Science and Judgment inRisk Assessment. Committee on RiskAssessment of Hazardous Air Pollutants, Natl Acad Press, Washington, DC National Research Council (1996) Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in ... HERP value of 6.2% Symphytine, a pyrrolizidine alkaloid plant pesticide that is present in comfreypepsin tablets and comfrey tea, is a rodent carcinogen; the HERP value for symphytine is 1.3% in...
... Developing andValidating Rapid Assessment Instruments language of factorial invariance and differential item functioning (DIF) Finally, we examine CFA with categorical measurement indicators and ... opportunities to integrate or innovate in making final decisions? These and other issues must all be resolved 19 20 Developing andValidating Rapid Assessment Instruments early and, adding even more ... in valid and reliable evidence Whatever the inspiration, measurement and scaling has become a certified “growth industry,” justifying the call for this book T Developing andValidating Rapid Assessment...
... topics including the regulatory context for coastal and estuarine risk assessment, emerging contaminants of concern, effects to marine mammals, bioavailability and exposure of marine organisms to inorganic ... Coastal and Estuarine RiskAssessment Mark Crane, Neal Sorokin, James R Wheeler, Albania Grosso, Paul Whitehouse, and David Morritt Chapter Emerging Contaminants of Concern in Coastal and Estuarine ... Cataloging -in- Publication Data Coastal and estuarine riskassessment / editors, Michael C Newman, Morris H Roberts, Jr., Robert C Hale p cm — (Environmental and ecological risk assessment) Includes...
... temporal and scalar variation in these dynamic systems? Is the ecosystem context inherent in framing most risk assessments adequate for coastal and estuarine systems that are physical boundaries and ... strata, developed and used by Ian Hartwell in Maryland, involves a risk- ranking approach based on ambient toxicity results using a standard battery of water column and benthic tests, and some measure ... and “region of concern” in the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.35,36 1.2.5 A CASE STUDY OF RISKASSESSMENTIN AN ESTUARY In 1993, the U.S EPA Office of Water and National Center for Environmental Assessment...
... countries in Central Europe and the Near East join Although originally formed in response to political and economic pressures, the EU is increasingly active in developing Directives and frameworks ... Precautionary Principle should be maintained so long as scientific information is incomplete or inconclusive, and the risk is still considered too high to be imposed on society); and • Capable of assigning ... the COMMPS (Combined Monitoring-based and Modelling-based Priority Setting) approach to prioritize those substances for which marine riskassessment is urgently required The remaining part of this...
... Incineration may result in the production of toxic by-products, e.g., chlorinated and brominated dioxins and furans Landfilling is becoming increasing difficult and expensive as a result of dwindling ... goldfish and to induce vitellogenin production in rainbow trout.81,82 Interestingly, several structurally related compounds were found to be inactive in fish, but were estrogenic in an in vitro ... formulations in offshore drilling, in European mining operations, or as a result of biosynthesis by marine invertebrates.25 The Virginia fish data depicted in Figure 3.2 include freshwater and anadromous...
... disciplines including those easily identified as idols of the theater, e.g., maintaining belief in an obviously failing paradigm Such a class of flawed methods also seems prevalent in ecological risk ... occurred in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina regarding the cause of recent coastal fish kills Most of the debate emerges from contrasting expert opinions based on incomplete knowledge and a ... in it raining today is lower on a day with no clouds in the sky than it is on a day with low gray clouds and a northeast wind But, indeed, the weather forecast in the latter case could contain...
... auratus was eliminated via the gill, and the remainder was eliminated in the bile and urine Elimination of many xenobiotics by estuarine invertebrates is often biphasic with an initial rapid loss ... Chem Biol Interact., 25, 321, 1979 16 Kleinow, K.M., James, M.O., and Lech, J.J., Drug pharmacokinetics and metabolism in food producing fish and crustaceans, in Xenobiotics and Food-Producing Animals, ... metabolites in the bile and finally elimination via urine.105 The hepatopancreas of crustacea, digestive glands of mollusks and annelids, and livers of fish play important roles in the accumulation and...
... anthropogenic source inventory, e.g., coal combustion and waste incineration (both medical and municipal) for Hg; coal combustion for Se; waste incineration for Cd; and smelting and other industrial activities ... and smelting and other industrial processes These elements are typically retained within watersheds,21,22 and postindustrialization activities have likely resulted in a general increase in their ... natural inputs.18–20 In addition to anthropogenic inputs to the atmosphere, metal and metalloids are also introduced directly into the aquatic environment as a result of activities such as mining and...
... 28 Luoma, S.N and Fisher, N.S., Uncertainties in assessing contaminant exposure from sediments, in Ecological RiskAssessment of Sediments, Ingersoll, C.G., Dillon, T., and Biddinger, G.R., Eds., ... Decho and Luoma51 and references therein show that digestion in some bivalves is complicated, and involves both extracellular and intracellular processes Intracellular digestion occurs within the ... result in impaired predator avoidance Quantitative assessment of such a hypothesis requires combining natural exposure conditions and ecological interactions in a controlled experiment Maintaining...
... endocrine disruption in invertebrates: endocrinology, testing, and assessment, in Endocrine Disruption in Invertebrates: Endocrinology, Testing, and Assessment, DeFur, P.L., Crane, M., Ingersoll, ... al., Field assessment for endocrine disruption in invertebrates, in Endocrine Disruption in Invertebrates: Endocrinology, Testing, and Assessment, DeFur, P.L., Crane, M., Ingersoll, C., and Tattersfield, ... evaluating potential effects of endocrine-disrupting compounds, in Endocrine Disruption in Invertebrates: Endocrinology, Testing, and Assessment, DeFur, P.L., Crane, M., Ingersoll, C., and Tattersfield,...
... persistent, toxic- and bioaccumulative contaminants, including DLCs and other AhR agonists.24,68 In addition to NBH, these sites include Newark, New Jersey, contaminated with dioxins,55,56,72 and the Atlantic ... xenobiotic ligands that include DLCs, and results in the transcriptional regulation of several proteins.22,24 Proteins induced by the AhR pathway include a major xenobiotic-metabolizing enzyme, ... aquatic and other wildlife species of dioxin and other contaminants that act through similar toxicological mechanisms.17 These contaminants, classified as dioxin-like compounds, include polychlorinated...
... correspondingly, 5.3% lethality The model indicated that the resulting decline in the P1 cohort eventually resulted in the extinction of the exposed population An interesting observation in modeling ... concentrations in fish and other media than those measured in the lake to demonstrate certain attributes of both models Therefore, the lake and the results of this assessment are hypothetical This being ... with standard deviation (sBW) of 670 g, and a minimum and maximum body mass of 1600 and 3000 g, respectively The model was truncated to disallow values greater than or less than the minimum and...
... Commission on RiskAssessmentandRisk Management, RiskAssessmentandRisk Management in Regulatory Decision-Making Final Report, Vol 2, Washington, D.C., 1977 Odum, H.T., Systems Ecology: An Introduction, ... mudflats andin adjoining riparian habitat relative to tide level in spring and autumn surveys 12.2.3.2 Habitat Analysis in a Wisconsin Lacustuary The Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin flows into ... Hemisphere.13 Since the beginning of the industrial age, dredging has usurped large areas of natural bottoms,14 and shorelines and intertidal wetlands have been replaced wholesale by anthropogenic land and...
... evidence of chylothorax In contrast, TPN has much more side effects and has no higher efficacy in treating chylothorax [12] Panthongviriyakul and Bines suggest using TPN in cases with elevated ... thrombosis was diagnosed A lysis therapy in out of these patients was successful in reopening the vein, but resolved chylothorax only inIn one patient who had a contraindication for a lysis therapy, ... them at risk of developing central vein thrombosis [15] To avoid central lines, an oral nutrition with a low fat formula (basic-f) and intravenous application of lipids may be practical Since central...
... substances and residues in food, MO&SS are being maintained in many countries MO&SS for zoonotic agents, on the other hand, have gained attention only in recent years and mainly in Scandinavian ... understanding of riskassessmentand the respective data needs (Younes & Somich-Mullin 1998) Discussion and conclusions Riskassessment as a scientific framework is being promoted in the international ... 72 Table Input data for risk assessments provided through animal disease monitoring and surveillance systems Riskassessment step Input provided through monitoring and surveillance systems...
... concepts in the evaluation of risks Format: Lectures including case studies, andriskassessment exercise, special feature Presentation of IPCS/WHO RiskAssessment Toolkit Teaching material: Hand-outs ... Course Coordinator: Khunying Mathuros Ruchirawat Objectives: Give an introduction to the assessment of risk of chemicals to human health and well-being and the environment, and present the ... Agonist - binding to receptor Antagonist - binding of normale ligand blocked Receptors - Ah-receptor Dioxin, PCB estrogen receptor; androgen receptor; thyroid receptor Endocrine disrupting chemicals...
... toxicological relevance and use for riskassessment of environmental matrices Aspects reduced bioavailability, environmental fate and transport not in present REP/TEF studies ... evaluated Mixtures of PCDDs, PCDFs and DL-‐PCBs s*ll a health risk? One order of magnitude decline in background human exposure since 1970’s due to remedial ac*ons ... Present TEF scheme and associated TEQs for exposure via dietary intake situa*ons (TEFs based largely on uptake studies) Applica'on these ‘intake or inges'on’ TEFs has...