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• General introduction to dioxins and PCBs
  ...nd capacitors), as plasticizers (softening materials) in plastic products, and for a variety of other industrial purposes. Their stability is a technical ...sho (Japan) and Yu-Cheng (Taiwan). In both cases rice oil was contaminated and caused a number of health effects.
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• Evaluating impact on amount of usable soil
  .... through building or construction works) or increase the amount of usable soil (e.g. through land decontamination)?<ref name="ams">JRC: IA TOOLS. Supporti ...nd human land use often goes hand in hand with sealing of former available soil or even its contamination.
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• Natural sources of dioxins
  ...tiainen, Tuomisto: Dioxin synopsis. Report / National Institute for Health and Welfare, ISSN 1798-0089 ; 14/2011 [http://lib.thl.fi:2345/lib4/src?PBFORMTY
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• Toxic equivalency factor
  ...by WHO in 2005, and these TEF values are often called WHO-TEF for PCDD/Fs and PCB-TEF for PCBs. TEq = ΣTEFi*Ci, where Ci is the amount (or concentration ...Jouni T. Tuomisto: Dioxin synopsis. Report. National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), ISSN 1798-0089 ; 14/2011 [http://www.thl.fi/thl-client/pdfs/
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• TEF estimates
  ...factor) estimates''' contain estimates for toxic potencies of [[dioxin]]s and [[PCB]]s, scaled to a common metric, where [[TCDD]] has the toxicity 1. What are the TEF values of different [[dioxin]] and [[PCB]] congeners?
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• Australia's national database of pollutant emissions
  ...Pollutant Inventory (NPI) maintains emission database for several sources and pollutants in Australia. Data is available from year 1999. Searches can be [[Category:Soil and sediment]]
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• CalTOX
  ...exposure scenario models, and add-ins to quantify and evaluate uncertainty and variability. ...t other models employ. This probabilistic approach allows both sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to be directly incorporated into the model operation.
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• EMEP-MSCE: Modelled POP concentrations in soil
  ...are at present available for benzo(b)fluoranthene, PCDD/Fs, PCBs, -HCH and HCB. Data are regularly updated. Maps are available from the website. Numer pops, persistent organic pollutants, pcbs, pahs, dioxins, soil, air, modelling
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• Emsoft
  ...o atmospheric dispersion models. EMSOFT can also be used by risk assessors and exposure modelers to calculate average chemical concentrations at a given d soil, modeling, assessment, flux, fate
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• Should we compost all our household waste?
  ...aps even more so at municipality level. Is it only a matter of foul smells and convenience, or could there also be health risks involved? ...environments. It is not difficult to detect the difference between aerobic and anaerobic breakdown – your nose will tell you which process is going on.
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• Results of Intake Fraction Studies
  ...nd health: The situation in developing countries, Annual reviews of Energy and Environment 18, 529-566.) ...al: Wolff, S.K., 2000. evaluation of fine particle exposures, health risks and control options, Doctoral Thesis, Department of Environmental Health, Harva
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• WHO:Eliminating environmental health hazards
  :''This text is taken from the WHO report "Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment", 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 0. ...nts during pregnancy, childhood and adolescence.<ref name="who">WHO Health and Environment in Europe: Progress Assessment, 2010, ISBN 978 92 890 4198 0[ht
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• Paakkila asbestos mine
  ...ons. The Pyrkilo method was tested by gathering and processing information and viewpoints relating to a complicated environmental health problem caused by ...as empoyees. Asbestosis and lung cancer were common diseases in Paakkila, and the life expectance was several years lower in Paakkila than in Finland in
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• Intake fractions of cadmium emissions from a large zinc smelter
  ...cadmium emissions from a large zinc smelter, both from airborne transport and via food. ...s obtained from a field survey in the study area. Plant and animal uptake and transfers into food products were estimated on the basis of data from liter
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• Integrated E & H monitoring programs
  ...we want to focus on (i) the data information, (ii) integrated methodology and (iii) the potential that the integration of existing activity could have fo ...P-Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, and ENHIS-European Environment and Health Information System.
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• Further reading on intake fractions
  ...ovide a comprehensive view of how to apply the intake fraction methodology and for which purposes it can be used. The majority of the studies are summaris | Power plants || Primary and secondary PM || Air || Inhalation || CALPUFF dispersion model || Levy et al
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