1st Edition

Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment Health Hazards to Humans, Plants, and Animals, Three Volume Set

1972 Pages
by CRC Press

Written over a period of 17 years, the Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment exhaustively examines and analyzes the world literature on chemicals entering the environment from human activities. The three volumes cover chemicals recommended by environmental specialists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other resource managers. The choices were based on the real or potential impact of each... Read more
VOLUME 1 - Metals
Cadmium
Chromium
Copper
Lead
Mercury
Nickel
Silver
Tin
Zinc

VOLUME 2 - Organics
Acrolein
Atrazine
Carbofluran
Chlordane
Chlorpyrifos
Cyanide
Diazinon
Diflubenzuron
Dioxins
Famphur
Fenvalerate
Mirex
Paraquat
Pentachlorophenol
Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Sodium Monofluoroacetate
Toxaphane

VOLUME 3 - Metaloids, Radiation, Index
Arsenic
Boron
Molybdenum
Selenium
Radiation
Index

Biography

Ronald Eisler

"I believe that nearly everyone engaged in ecotoxicology or ecotoxicological risk assessments is acquainted with Ronald Eisler's Contaminant Hazard Reviews which were published between 1985 and 1999…Those reviews have now been updated by Dr. Eisler and published as a three-volume 'handbook'…I found the original reviews to be handy and reliable references, and I expect to frequently consult these new volumes."
-Glenn Suter, SETAC Reviews Editor

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