Details

Contributor

• World Health Organization [Browse]

Content provider

• United Nations Environment Programme [Browse]
• World Health Organization [Browse]

Series

Environmental Health Criteria [More in this series]

Summary note

This book evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to fluorides. It is widely known that fluoride has both positive and negative effects on human health and there is a narrow range between intakes that are associated with

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Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note to readers of the criteria monographs; Environmental health criteria; Who task group on environmental health criteria for fluorides; Environmental health criteria for fluorides; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Summary and conclusions; 2. Identity, physical and chemical properties and analytical methods; 3. Sources of human and environmental exposure; 4. Environmental transport, distribution and transformation; 5. Environmental levels and human exposure; 6. Kinetics and metabolism in humans and laboratory animals
• 7. Effects on laboratory mammals and in vitro test systems8. Effects on humans; 9. Effects on other organisms in the laboratory and field; 10. Evaluation of human health risks and effects on the environment; 11. Conclusions and recommendations for protection of human health and the environment; 12. Further research; 13. Previous evaluations by international bodies; References; Resume et conclusions; Resumen y conclusiones

ISBN

92-4-068764-5

OCLC

• 747410897
• 877833329

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