Chemical Health Threats: Assessing and Alerting [Hardcover]

This book covers recent developments in the implementation of a European collaboration for assessing cross-border toxicological threats. It discusses the European guidelines for the risk assessment and management of serious international public health dangers. It covers REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & Restriction of Chemicals) directives and the work of the ASHT (Alerting System for Chemical Health Threats) project. It will be useful for to public health regulators, toxicologists, poisons centres, industrialists and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) specialists.Overview of Alerting, Assessing and Responding to Chemical Public Health Threats; Chemical Regulation at the European Level: Safeguarding Consumer Health and Protecting the Environment; Medical Management of Mass Intoxications; Hazardous Exposures to Liquid Laundry Detergents Capsules in Young Children; Novel Applications of Spatial Mapping to Chemicals or Biological Outbreaks; Surveillance of Chemical Health Threats; Responding to New Psychoactive Substances in the Europen Union: Early Warning, Risk Assessment and Control Measures; Rapid Public Health Risk Assessments for Emerging Chemical Health Threats; Review of Risk Management Measures to Mitigate Against Exposures to Household Chemical Consumer Products; Understanding and Managing Behavioural and Psychological Responses to Chemical Incidents; Strategic, Technical and Scientific Advice in an Environmental Emergency; Public Health Preparation and Response to Chemical Incident Emergencies; Chemical Incident Management: An Overview of Preparedness, Response and Recovery; Investigating Outbreaks of Unknown Aetiology; Case Study: Methanol Mass Poisoning Outbreak in the Czech Republic: Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcome; Case Study: Fentanils: A Serious Threat to Public Health in Europe; Case Study: Enschede Fireworks Disaster: Lessons Learned; Case Study 4: The ANDE Fire, Paraguay, 2015

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