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Journal articles on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Brown, Phil. "Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 18, no. 4 (1993): 996–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03616878-18-4-996.

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King, Andrew. "Secrecy is Toxic—Building Community Right-to-Know in Canada's Largest Municipality." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 21, no. 3 (October 14, 2011): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/ns.21.3.h.

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The regulation of toxic chemicals in Canada has undergone many twists and turns in the last 40 years. This paper describes the emergence of a new alliance, one which brought together people from a broad range of backgrounds to formulate common strategy to address the continuing use and dissemination of toxic chemicals, especially carcinogens. In just over a decade, Canada's largest municipality, Toronto, adopted a bylaw which introduced a comprehensive scheme for community right-to-know about toxic chemicals being used, released, and disposed—the first in the country. The bylaw represents the success of a network that integrated experience and expertise from community activism, environment, labour, public health, politics and cancer prevention.
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Belliveau, Michael E. "The Drive for a Safer Chemicals Policy in the United States." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 21, no. 3 (October 14, 2011): 359–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/ns.21.3.e.

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This article analyzes the history, policies and politics of the modern era of safer chemical policy reform in the United States. In the last decade, state laws have modeled a chemical policy framework to phase out unnecessary dangerous chemicals in favor of safer alternatives. These state drivers, along with market campaigns to reduce downstream business use of hazardous chemicals, have weakened the chemical industry's resistance to fixing the broken federal chemical safety system. The obsolete Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) has failed to protect public health and the environment and has stifled innovation toward greener chemistry. Health advocates with a progressive policy vision tempered by legislative pragmatism have launched a TSCA reform campaign to challenge chemical industry power in a weak Congress. The opportunity and limits to winning meaningful TSCA reform are characterized and marked as a critical milestone on the path to a truly comprehensive safer chemical policy for the United States.
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Balayannis, Angeliki. "Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 4 (January 20, 2020): 772–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775819900197.

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This paper examines the geographies of hazardous waste removal. Over the past decade, studies of disposal have demonstrated the myriad ways in which things can never disappear – they can only be transformed, transmuted, combusted, combined or any other manner of material change. This paper aims to develop understandings of the material politics of disposal by considering the matter of representation. It does this ethnographically, by following a chemical stockpile though the process of removal from its storage site in Tanzania. In examining everyday disposal practices, this paper highlights the materialities of hazardous waste in ways that have been epistemologically side-lined. Locating the analysis at the intersection of matter and representation, the paper illustrates the centrality of paper-work, diagrams, photographs and standard operating procedures in performing removal. It argues that removal is achieved through a bureaucratic spectacle; a process which obscures lingering residues and compounds their toxic effects. By attending to chemicals through the mundane work of removal, this paper opens up different lines of inquiry for studies of waste, and enriches understandings of materiality by considering how visual representations make a difference.
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Durant, Jennie L. "Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced." Social Studies of Science 50, no. 5 (May 13, 2020): 751–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312720923390.

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In this article, I examine the knowledge politics around pesticides in the United States and the role it plays in honey bee declines. Since 2006, US beekeepers have lost an average of one-third of their colonies each year. Though a number of factors influence bee health, beekeepers, researchers and policymakers cite pesticides as a primary contributor. In the US, pesticide registration is overseen by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the required tests conducted by chemical companies applying for registration. Until 2016, the EPA only required chemical companies to measure acute toxicity for non-target species, which means that many pesticides with sublethal toxicities are not labeled bee-toxic, and farmers can apply them without penalty while bees are on their farms or orchards. In addition, California state and county regulators will typically only investigate a bee kill caused by a labeled bee-toxic pesticide, and so emergent data on non-labeled, sublethal pesticides goes uncollected. These gaps in data collection frustrate beekeepers and disincentivize them from reporting colony losses to regulatory agencies – thus reinforcing ignorance about which chemicals are toxic to bees. I term the iterative cycle of non-knowledge co-constituted by regulatory shortfalls and stakeholder regulatory disengagement an ‘ignorance loop’. I conclude with a discussion of what this dynamic can tell us about the politics of knowledge production and pesticide governance and the consequences of ‘ignorance loops’ for stakeholders and the environment.
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Funke, Odelia. "U.S. Chemical Program: Purpose, Challenges, and Evolution." Politics and the Life Sciences 20, no. 2 (September 2001): 175–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400005463.

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This article explores long-term issues and problems that have seriously undermined the U.S. Chemical Testing Program established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act. This program is meant to gather information needed to protect human health and the environment from damaging exposure to toxic chemicals. Despite seemingly broad and impressive authority under the statute, there are a number of inherent difficulties, as well as substantial political constraints, that impede comprehensive oversight of chemicals in U.S. commerce. The article discusses several approaches that EPA has adopted to overcome statutory and political limitations and increase chemical testing information. The most recent and promising of these efforts has involved international negotiations to harmonize testing approaches with OECD nations and to cooperate on an agenda that will better share the testing burden on an international level.
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Chiapella, Ariana M., Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Mary Ann Rozance, Ashlie D. Denton, Manar A. Alattar, and Elise F. Granek. "Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward." BioScience 69, no. 8 (July 10, 2019): 615–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz065.

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AbstractOver 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health. We contend that these failures result from the flawed governance over the continued production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals. To address this failure, we need to identify the broader social, political, and technological processes producing, knowing, and regulating toxic chemicals, collectively referred to as toxic chemical governance. To do so, we create a conceptual framework covering five key domains of governance: knowledge production, policy design, monitoring and enforcement, evaluation, and adjudication. Within each domain, social actors of varying power negotiate what constitutes acceptable risk, creating longer-term path dependencies in how they are addressed (or not). Using existing literature and five case studies, we discuss four paths for improving governance: evolving paradigms of harm, addressing bias in the knowledge base, making governance more equitable, and overcoming path dependency.
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Kim, Jongyoung, Heeyun Kim, and Jawoon Lim. "The Politics of Science and Undone Protection in the “Samsung Leukemia” Case." East Asian Science, Technology and Society 14, no. 4 (November 2, 2020): 573–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/18752160-8770884.

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Abstract A labor health dispute between a multinational corporation and patient-workers in Korea received enormous attention from 2007 to 2018, when it was finally and successfully resolved. Sick workers of Samsung Semiconductor claimed they were contaminated by toxic chemicals at their workplace that resulted in their sickness, a contested illness known as “Samsung leukemia.” In this dispute, the Korean government and Samsung used epistemological studies to deny the workers’ claims. The patient-workers politicized the industrial disease, forming a labor health movement that advocated for workers’ rights and welfare. In this long disputed process, they developed their own bottom-up science that collected evidence from their factories and connected this evidence with the claims of counter-experts. They made done “undone science,” which investigated the relationship between the unknown disease and the semiconductor industry. But the undone science has been constructed in the context of “undone protection” stemming not only from chemical exposure in factories that weigh profit over safety but also from institutional failures to protect and compensate the loss of workers’ lives and health. The successful resolution of the “Samsung leukemia” case depended on a health movement that worked toward getting undone science and undone protection done simultaneously.
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Tironi, Manuel. "Hypo-interventions: Intimate activism in toxic environments." Social Studies of Science 48, no. 3 (June 2018): 438–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312718784779.

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Chemical toxicity is part of everyday life in Puchuncaví. The most polluted industrial compound in Chile, Puchuncaví is home of fourteen industrial complexes, including the largest copper smelting plant in the country and four thermoelectric plants. Stories of biological mutation, corrosion and death among plants, humans, fishes and cattle are proliferate in Puchuncaví. Engaging with the growing interest in care and affective modes of attention within STS, this paper examines how ill, intoxicated or otherwise affected people in Puchuncaví act upon and know about their chronic sufferings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I focus on what I call ‘hypo-interventions’, or the minimal and unspectacular yet life-enabling practices of caring, cleaning and healing the ailments of their significant others, human and otherwise. By minutely engaging with somatic and affective alterations in the domestic spaces of the body, the home and the garden, Puchuncavinos render industrial harm visible and knowable, and hence a type of political action is invoked. While outside technical validation and alien to conventional politics, these actions have proved crucial for people in Puchuncaví striving to persevere in the face of industrial violence and institutional abandonment. I coin the term ‘intimate activism’ to describe the ethical and political affordances of the subdued doings and engagements deployed in Puchuncaví. Intimate activism, I claim, draws its political power on its capacity to create minimal conditions for ethical and material endurance.
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Agaba, G. O. "Mathematical Evaluation of the Effect of Agrochemicals on Human Health." NIGERIAN ANNALS OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES 1 (March 14, 2019): 236–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46912/napas.30.

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The fast growing economical and political needs and demands for increase agricultural activities and produces in most parts of the world necessitate the need for a careful evaluation of the general crop cultivation processes and the increasing usage of diverse toxic chemicals in the form of pesticides, fertilizers, etc. in the agricultural sector to control pests and weeds to improve soil nutrients during cultivation and in some cases, for preservation of cultivated crops. Agrochemicals are used in a manner that suggests farmers do not take into cognisance the fact that residue of the chemicals which is harmful to man is always left on such foods. This paper applies a mathematical model to examine the impact of agrochemicals on human health by using the conventional principle of an SEIRS epidemic model. From the overall outcome, it was observed that the consumption of these hazardous plants before the elapse of the incubation (waiting) period affect the human health negatively. Consequently, the need for a wake up call to all farmers, agricultural workers, Government and Non-Governmental monitoring agencies to arise to the task of saving human lives from these toxic chemical residues in agricultural produces.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Benn, Suzanne Harriette Science &amp Technology Studies UNSW. "The Environmental Challenge to the Overloaded State: The Politics of Toxic Chemicals in NSW since the late 1970s." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Science and Technology Studies, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/32639.

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This thesis is a regional interdisciplinary analysis of the environmental challenge to the liberal democratic state. It situates these new problems of governance in one of the dominating political conflicts of our time, the battle between market and state for the 'commanding heights'. By the end of the 1970s, environmental concerns had added to the social crises associated with the overloaded, welfare state. The study sets the political context through an exposition of the perceived problems of the overloaded state, analysed by neo-Marxist theorists in terms of rationality and legitimacy deficits and by public choice theorists in terms of the incentives and calculations confronting rational individuals. It draws out the association between these alternative perspectives on 'state overload' and the political philosophies of corporatism and neo-liberalism, showing that, on the neo-Marxist understanding, corporatism addresses the functional requirements of late capitalism, while public choice precepts are strongly influential on leading elements of neo-liberalism. This political analysis is developed through the history of a landmark piece of legislation, the Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act (NSW) 1985, in toxic chemicals policymaking from the late 1970s to the end of 1997. The interpretation of the case material shows that the response in NSW to the environmental problematic has been driven by the reform agenda of the successive political programs of corporatism and neo-liberalism for the state, the bureaucracy and the democratic process. Neither the corporatist nor the neo-liberal programs succeeded in meeting environmental criteria. Examination of the inadequate responses of both corporatism and neo-liberalism, when measured against sustainability criteria, leads to a deeper understanding of the institutional reforms required if these criteria are to be addressed. The thesis concludes that the failure to effect successful reform of toxic chemicals policy in NSW reflects the failure of leading political theorems of the liberal democratic state to incorporate sustainability criteria successfully into their reform agenda for the state, the bureaucracy and the democratic process. These regional issues are shown to be thematic for the nation-state when raised in the context of the globalisation of the environmental challenge and the inter nationalisation of market forces. The thesis concludes with a brief review of some recent political theory in relation to the programmatic issues of sustainability and democracy which it has pursued.
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Siordia, Jimena Carolina. "Analysis of Toxic Chemicals Affecting the Oocyte." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192989.

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Gabrielson, Jenny. "Assessing the toxic impact of chemicals using bacteria /." Stockholm, 2004. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2004/91-7140-143-1/.

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Venier, Marta. "Investigation of toxic organic chemicals in the environment." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319902.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Science Affairs, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 13, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: B, page: 4637. Adviser: Ronald A. Hites.
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Goats, Geoffrey Charles. "Assessment of the effects of toxic chemicals upon earthworms." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37706.

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Li, Jing Adela, and 李晶. "Temperature-dependent toxic effects of selected chemicals on marine organisms." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/211051.

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Anthropogenically driven climate change not only results in rising of sea temperature but also leads to more frequent and longer-lasting cold and heat waves. Meanwhile, coastal marine ecosystems are constantly challenged by increasing threats of chemical pollution. Temperature and chemical stressors can jointly affect the livelihood of marine organisms, but their combined effects are still poorly understood. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of thermal stress and chemical exposure on the marine medaka Oryzias melastigma, copepod Tigriopus japonicus and rotifer Brachionus koreanus. The four selected chemical contaminants included copper sulphate pentahydrate (Cu), dichlorophenyltrichloroethane (DDT), triphenyltin chloride and copper pyrithione. It was hypothesized that marine organisms are more susceptible to chemical exposure at both cold and warm extremes. In vivo acute ecotoxicity tests were conducted over a wide temperature range to ascertain the relationship between thermal stress and chemical toxicity. For O. melastigma larvae, the lowest toxicity occurred at an optimum temperature range; the chemical toxicity further increased with temperature increase or decrease from this optimum, and exacerbated at extremely low and high temperatures. For T. japonicus and B. koreanus, the chemical toxicity generally increased with increasing temperature. Such inter-species dissimilarities were possibly due to differences in the uptake route, detoxification mechanism, avoidance behaviour and physiological response between the fish and the copepod or rotifer. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the temperature-dependent physiological and biochemical responses, and thermal tolerance of O. melastigma larvae. The growth in the fish larvae showed an inverse and negatively skewed V-shape relationship with temperature, with a significant reduction in performance at both low and high thermal extremes. A mismatch between demand and supply of oxygen and energy under extremely cold and warm conditions was probably the primary cause of growth inhibition and metabolic impairment, leading to a temporary adaptation by a shift to anaerobiosis and an induction of heat shock proteins (HSPs). Temperatures at both cold and warm extremes increased toxicities of DDT and Cu to O. melastigma larvae, resulting in restricted growth and interrupted oxygen consumption rate. The fish larvae modulated their metabolic pathway and produced stress proteins (i.e., HSPs and metallothioneins) for adaptation to the combined stress. However, such responses were disrupted by combinations of thermal extremes, in particular high temperature, and high chemical concentration. Most importantly, both DDT and Cu exposure significantly reduced the thermal tolerance of the fish larvae. The interacting effect of temperature and Cu was also investigated on T. japonicus. The results showed that their combined effect could significantly reduce the survival, lengthen the developmental time and change the sex ratio of the copepod. Transcriptions of several stress-related genes (i.e., glutathione reductase, glutathione S-transferases and HSPs) in the adult T. japonicus were significantly affected by the joint-effect of temperature and Cu exposure, implying that these genes played essential roles in protecting the cellular integrity against the stresses. This study advanced the understanding on the temperature-dependent toxicity of chemical contaminants to marine organisms, and provided valuable information and empirical models for deriving water quality criteria of chemical contaminants at various temperatures.
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Jeffs, Corinne Ailsa. "Removal of toxic industrial chemicals using novel adsorbent hollow fibres." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665437.

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The current military respirator provides protection from contaminants using a cartridge packed with adsorbent activated carbon particles treated with metal salts to provide protection from toxic gases. However, the user of this respirator is subject to a physiological burden as a result. One component of this burden is the pressure drop, which makes breathing through the respirator filter difficult, with the burden becoming more severe at higher breathing rates. This project investigates the reduction of pressure drop and hence burden in respirator cartridges by using adsorbent hollow fibres. These are made up of adsorbent powder held together with a polymer binder to replace the conventional adsorbent particles. Adsorbent hollow fibres have a number of advantages, including lower pressure drop, the ability to operate in any orientation, no special filling requirements and customisability against emerging threats, such as toxic industrial chemicals. Dynamic challenges were performed using ammonia, hydrogen sulphide and cyclohexane as candidate gases, as each typifies a particular category of toxic industrial chemicals. Adsorbent hollow fibres were customised by treating with metal salts, metal organic frameworks and pore forming agents, and by replacing the hollow fibre polymer binder with a novel microporous polymer. In addition, the pressure drop of these adsorbent fibres was compared to granular beds. Pressure drop was then modelled using the Hagen-Poiseuille equation, and the breakthrough time was modelled with the Wheeler-Jonas equation, enabling the prediction of pressure drop and breakthrough time for new designs of adsorbent hollow fibre cartridges.
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Lum, Peck Yoong. "Cytochrome P-448 and the activation of toxic chemicals and carcinogens." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1987. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/847660/.

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Studies were carried out on the developmental profile of PB-cytochrome P-450 and cytochrome P-448-dependent mixed-function oxidase activities in the foetal and neonatal rat. PB-Cytochrome P-450 activity, as examplified by benzphetamine N-demethylase was low at birth but increased with age. In contrast, cytochrome P-448 activity, as exemplified by ethoxyresorufin 0-deethylase (EROD) and biphenyl 2-hydroxylase, was higher in the neonate, reaching maximum levels at about two weeks postpartum and decreased with age. Cytochrome P-448 inducibility by 3-methylcholanthrene was low at birth and increased with age. Investigations were also carried out on the induction of cytochrome P-448, as measured by the 0-deethylation of ethoxyresorufin, by carcinogens and several other xenobiotics in hepatic and extrahepatic tissues of the adult male rat. EROD activity was highest in the liver, followed by the kidney > lung, in the untreated animal; activity was not detectable in the heart and the brain. Treatment with carcinogens enhanced EROD activity most markedly in the liver and to a smaller extent, in the kidney and lung. In addition, induction of EROD activity was achieved with very low doses of the inducing agent. A single intraperitoneal dose of 50 ug/kg of benzo(a)pyrene increased hepatic EROD activity by 2-fold. Activity was also significantly enhanced by single intraperitoneal doses of 0.5 mg/kg of 2-acetamidofluorene or safrole. Maximum induction was achieved at dose levels of 2-5 mg/kg, with peak activity occurring 24 hours after dosing. In addition, the O-dealkylations of a series of alkoxyresorufins (1C to 8C) and the debenzylation of benzyloxyresorufin were induced by 3-MC only in the responsive C57BL/6 mice but not in the non-responsive DBA/2 mice, indicating that these activities are associated with the Ah locus. The present study showed that carcinogens induced the O-dealkylation of the short-chain alkoxyresorufins (methoxy- to butoxy-) to a greater extent than did the long-chain derivatives. In addition, heptoxyresorufin dealkylation was most markedly enhanced by DDT while benzyloxyresorufin debenzylation was induced to similar extents by carcinogens and non-carcinogens. Although cimetidine has been shown to be an inhibitor of hepatic drug metabolism by binding to cytochrome P-450 through its imidazole ring structure, the present study demonstrated that neither cimetidine nor its nitrosated derivative, nitrosocimetidine exhibited any significant inhibition towards cytochrome P-448 activity in the rat, as measured by the EROD assay, even when administered at five times the oral therapeutic dose in man. Results of the present study indicate that the induction of cytochrome P-448 is associated with chemical toxicity/carcinogenicity. In addition, the 0-deethylation of ethoxyresorufin is a very sensitive and highly specific marker for cytochrome P-448 activity.
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Carway, Eugene Vincent. "Toxic chemical syndrome: body burden and immune parameters affected by environmental chemicals." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332749/.

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The purpose of the present study was to determine: (1) that dental office personnel would be exposed to more toxic chemicals in the workplace than the non-dental office controls; (2) that exposure should lead to a reduction in the efficiency of the immune system in the individuals in the dental office; and (3) the immunological deficit should manifest itself in psychological and/or physiological pathology as measured on the Profile of Mood States (POMS) and Bender Gestalt.
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Whitfield, George C. (George Calvin). "MEMS-based resonant sensor arrays : selective detection of volatile and toxic chemicals." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28874.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2004.
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With growing concerns about homeland security, public health, and environmental cleanliness, there is a strong need today for robust chemical sensing systems that are portable in addition to being highly sensitive. While there are many options available for gaseous chemical detection and identification, not all are well-suited toward the creation of a portable device. Boston MicroSystems, Inc. (BMS) has developed a resonant chemical sensor that is predicted to meet the performance needs of the current market in terms of gas sensitivity, operational reliability, and overall device portability. Desirable device characteristics are attained through integrating aluminum nitride and silicon carbide in processes that are protected through a strong base of intellectual property. By developing a standardized platform for gas detection based on this sensor technology, barriers to entering the targeted markets may be overcome.
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Books on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Toxic politics: Responding to chemical disasters. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

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Toxic chemicals in the workplace. Houston: Gulf Pub., 1996.

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Fagin, Dan. Toxic deception: How the chemical industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health. Monroe, Me: Common courage press, 1999.

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Marianne, Lavelle, and Center for Public Integrity, eds. Toxic deception: How the chemical industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health. Secaucus, N.J: Carol Pub. Group, 1996.

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International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (United Nations Environment Programme). International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals. [Nairobi]: United Nations Environment Programme, 1990.

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Gerstl, Zev, Y. Chen, U. Mingelgrin, and Bruno Yaron, eds. Toxic Organic Chemicals in Porous Media. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74468-6.

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Lipnick, Robert L., Joop L. M. Hermens, Kevin C. Jones, and Derek C. G. Muir, eds. Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals I. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2001-0772.

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Lipnick, Robert L., Bo Jansson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas, eds. Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals II. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2001-0773.

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Brooks, Bart. Toxic legacy: Toxic chemicals and marine life in Puget Sound. Bellingham, WA: RESources, 2001.

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A, Sachdev Jayanti, and Engleman Stephen A, eds. Toxic chemicals: Risk prevention through use reduction. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Hiscox, April, and Mark Macauda. "Airborne Toxic Chemicals airborne toxic chemicals." In Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, 298–309. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_47.

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Gama, Simanga, Jon A. Arnot, and Don Mackay. "Toxic Organic Chemicals toxic(s) organic chemicals." In Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, 10657–71. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_639.

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Gama, Simanga, Jon A. Arnot, and Don Mackay. "Toxic Organic Chemicals." In Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment, 41–63. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5731-2_3.

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Hiscox, April, and Mark Macauda. "Airborne Toxic Chemicals." In Environmental Toxicology, 17–34. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5764-0_2.

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Monosson, Emily. "Sensing Chemicals." In Evolution in a Toxic World, 100–115. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-221-1_7.

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Shen, Thomas T. "Toxic Chemicals and Processes Wastes." In Industrial Pollution Prevention, 37–57. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03110-0_3.

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Shen, Thomas T. "Toxic chemicals and processes wastes." In Industrial Pollution Prevention, 39–58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03864-2_3.

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Tolba, Mostafa K., and Osama A. El-Kholy. "Toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes." In The World Environment 1972–1992, 247–75. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2280-1_10.

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Tolba, Mostafa K. "Toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes." In Saving Our Planet, 105–17. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2278-8_10.

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Schweitzer, Glenn E. "Toxic Chemicals Move to Center Stage." In Borrowed Earth, Borrowed Time, 1–34. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6140-2_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Balouet, Jean Christophe, Harry Hoffman, and Chris Winder. "Aviation and Exposure to Toxic Chemicals." In World Aviation Congress & Exposition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-5603.

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Hans, Harvey B. "Paint Stripping with Non-Toxic Chemicals." In Airframe Finishing, Maintenance & Repair Conference & Exposition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/941243.

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Diamond, Miriam. "The Story of Toxic Chemicals in Computing Systems." In LIMITS '17: Workshop on Computing Within Limits. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3080556.3080570.

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Stear, M. "106. Short Term Exposure to Highly Toxic Organic Chemicals." In AIHce 2001. AIHA, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.3320/1.2765616.

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Adley, D. "155. Worker Exposure to Toxic Chemicals During Abrasive Blasting Operations." In AIHce 2000. AIHA, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.3320/1.2763483.

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Heng, Iem, Andy S. Zhang, and Ali Harb. "Using Solar Robotic Technology to Detect Lethal and Toxic Chemicals." In 2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ghtc.2011.45.

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Webber, Michael E., Michael B. Pushkarsky, and C. Kumar N. Patel. "Optical detection of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals." In European Symposium on Optics and Photonics for Defence and Security, edited by John C. Carrano and Arturas Zukauskas. SPIE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.579109.

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Bulbul, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Rayhan Habib Jibon, Md Abdul Awal, Etu Podder, Himadri Shekhar Mondal, Md Salim Ahmed, Md Bellal Hossain, Md Mahmudul Hasan, and Avijit Saha. "Toxic Chemicals Detection using Photonic Crystal Fiber in THz Regime." In 2020 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icccnt49239.2020.9225544.

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van der Schalie, William H., Roy Reuter, Tommy R. Shedd, and Paul L. Knechtges. "Environmental sentinel biomonitors: integrated response systems for monitoring toxic chemicals." In Environmental and Industrial Sensing, edited by Janet L. Jensen and Larry W. Burggraf. SPIE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.456920.

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Yuan, Chris Y., and David A. Dornfeld. "Sustainable Material Selection of Toxic Chemicals in Design and Manufacturing From Human Health Impact Perspective." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87145.

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Toxic chemicals used in product design and manufacturing are grave concerns due to their significant impact on human health. Sustainable material selections are needed by industry to reduce the overall impact of toxic chemicals in both design and manufacturing. In this paper, we integrate the human health impact assessment into standard material selection process for developing a sustainable material selection metric for decision support in design and manufacturing. A schematic method is presented for characterizing and benchmarking the human health impact of toxic chemicals. A case study is performed on six toxic chemicals used as solvents in semiconductor manufacturing. Reliability of the schematic benchmarking results is checked and validated by comparing the results with that of conventional Human Toxicity Potential (HTP) method.
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Reports on the topic "Politics of toxic chemicals"

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Straut, Christine, Richard Kottenstette, Aric Bitton, and Patrick Burton. Neutralization and Disposal of Laboratory Scale Toxic Chemicals. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1618030.

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Crawford, R. L., and D. R. Ralston. Stabilization of microorganisms for in situ degradation of toxic chemicals. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), January 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6503808.

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Matthews, Robin L., Terri L. Longworth, Kwok Y. Ong, Leyun Zhu, and Christopher D. Brown. Testing of Ahura's FirstDefender Handheld Chemical Identifier Against Toxic Industrial Chemicals. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada461530.

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Peterson, Greogry W., and Joseph A. Rossin. Impregnated Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Removal of Toxic Industrial Chemicals. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada491477.

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Foust, C. B., G. D. Griffin, N. B. Munro, and M. L. Socolof. Guidance on health effects of toxic chemicals. Safety Analysis Report Update Program. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10136228.

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Crawford, R. L., and D. R. Ralston. Stabilization of microorganisms for in situ degradation of toxic chemicals. Final report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10148569.

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Backman, G. E., J. T. Denovan, N. P. Nisick, and J. A. Piatt. Hazard classification method for facilities containing toxic chemicals at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/5492679.

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Author, Not Given. Colloids in groundwater: Their mobilization, subsurface transport, and sorption affinity for toxic chemicals. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), January 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6144063.

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Gschwend, P. M. Colloids in groundwater: Their mobilization, subsurface transport, and sorption affinity for toxic chemicals. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/7288440.

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Peterson, Gregory W., John Mahle, Alex Balboa, George Wagner, Tara Sewell, and Christopher J. Karwacki. Evaluation of MOF-74, MOF-177, and ZIF-8 for the Removal of Toxic Industrial Chemicals. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada491496.

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