Protecting environmental quality and human health: strategies for harmonisation

Green, E; Short, S.; Stutt, Edward; Harrison, Paul

doi:10.1016/s0048-9697(00)00493-9

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“…There is a need to accurately quantify the toxicological risk to the resident populations in the contaminated environments. Current assessment models derive the total human exposure (Kolluru et al, 1996;Kimmel et al, 1999;Akagi et al, 2000;Alcock et al, 2000;Green et al, 2000;Lee et al, 2000;Paustenbach, 2002;Sekhar et al, 2003;Lee et al, 2004) by evaluating the fate and transport of toxic elements through exposure pathways such as drinking water, food intake, dust inhalation and hand-to-mouth soil ingestion.…”

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Evaluation of human exposure to arsenic due to rice ingestion in the vicinity of abandoned Myungbong Au–Ag mine site, Korea

Lee¹,

Lee

Chon

et al. 2008

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

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Evaluation of human exposure to arsenic due to rice ingestion in the vicinity of abandoned Myungbong Au–Ag mine site, Korea

Lee¹,

Lee

Chon

et al. 2008

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

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“…There is a need to accurately quantify the toxicological risk to the resident populations in the contaminated environments. Current assessment models derive the total human exposure (Kolluru et al 1996;Kimmel et al 1999;Akagi et al 2000;Alcock et al 2000;Green et al 2000;Lee et al 2000Lee et al , 2004Paustenbach 2002;Sekhar et al 2003) by evaluating the fate and transport of toxic elements through exposure pathways such as drinking water, food intake, dust inhalation and hand-tomouth soil ingestion. The adverse health effects of human exposure to toxic elements however have not been rigorously appraised.…”

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Human risk assessment of As, Cd, Cu and Zn in the abandoned metal mine site

Lee

Chon

Kim

2005

Environ Geochem Health

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The cancer risk and the non-cancer hazard index for inhabitants exposed to As, Cd, Cu and Zn in the soils and stream waters of the abandoned Songcheon Au-Ag mine area were evaluated. Mean concentrations of As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in agricultural soils were 230, 2.5, 120, 160, and 164 mg kg(-1), respectively. Mean concentrations of As, Cd and Zn of the water in the stream where drinking water was drawn was 246 microg L(-1), 161 microg L(-1) and 3899 microg L(-1), respectively. These levels are significantly higher than the permissible levels for drinking water quality recommended by Korea and WHO. The resulting human health risks to farmers who inhabited the surrounding areas due to drinking water were summarized as follows: (1) the non-cancer health hazard indices showed that the toxic risk due to As and Cd in drinking water were 10 and 4 times, respectively, greater than those induced by the safe average daily dosages of the respective chemicals. (2) the cancer risk of As for exposed individuals through the drinking water pathway was 5 in 1000, exceeded the acceptable risk of 1 in 10,000 set for regulatory purposes.

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“…At the same time, concepts such as "sustainable development" and "quality oflife", combined with emerging regulatory requirements, have considerable impact on the responsibilities and activities of those involved in the protection of the environment. 1 Growing environmental concerns have created an urgent need to develop new materials. Using biodegradable polymers to replace traditional oil-based plastics is one of ultimate available solutions to the environmental problems caused by the disposal of biostable plastic wastes.…”

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Study on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Biodegradable Blends of Poly(ε-caprolactone) and Lignin

Inoue

2001

Polym J

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ABSTRACT:The phase structure and physical property were investigated for blends of poly(E-caprolactone) (PCL) and lignin, both of which were biodegradable polymers. The blend was prepared by mechanical mixing and solution casting. The thermal analysis (DSC and DMTA) indicated there was no detectable evidence that PCL/lignin blends prepared by mechanical mixing was miscible obviously. But it was found the obvious shift of glass transition temperature Tg of the blends prepared by solution casting. This was the strong evidence to support the fact that these two polymers were at least partially miscible. According to the results of FT-IR, no obvious changes in the shape and peak position of carbonyl absorption caused by formation of hydrogen bond between PCL carbonyl and lignin phenol hydroxyl groups were observed due to the fact that the number of phenol groups in lignin molecule is too small to induce detectable changes of carbonyl absorption. With increasing the lignin content in the blends, the position of 0-H stretching band obviously shifted from 3397 to 3412 cm -i_ This shift to lower frequency was characteristic for intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Studying the mechanical property of the blends, we found that the maximum strength, elongation at maximum strength and elongation at break decreased but Young's modulus increased with the increasing content oflignin. Within the lignin content of 25%, the material had good mechanical property. It was also found that the samples prepared by solution casting had better mechanical properties because of the higher dispersity. The result suggested that to blend PCL with lignin could contribute to increase Young's modulus and reduce the production cost of PCL materials.KEY WORDS Poly(E-caprolactone) / Lignin / Biodegradable Polymer/ Polymer Blends/ Hydrogen Bond I Miscibility/

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Protecting environmental quality and human health: strategies for harmonisation

Cited by 9 publications

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Evaluation of human exposure to arsenic due to rice ingestion in the vicinity of abandoned Myungbong Au–Ag mine site, Korea

Evaluation of human exposure to arsenic due to rice ingestion in the vicinity of abandoned Myungbong Au–Ag mine site, Korea

Human risk assessment of As, Cd, Cu and Zn in the abandoned metal mine site

Study on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Biodegradable Blends of Poly(ε-caprolactone) and Lignin

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