TY - BOOK ID - 14299945 TI - Exposure and risk assessment of chemical pollution : contemporary methodology AU - Hassanien, Mahmoud A. AU - Simeonov, Lubomir PY - 2009 SN - 9048123348 9786612069444 1282069446 9048123356 904812333X PB - Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Chemical industry -- Risk assessment -- Congresses. KW - Chemical industry -- Safety measures -- Congresses. KW - Chemicals -- Risk assessment -- Congresses. KW - Environmental risk assessment -- Congresses. KW - Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses. KW - Agriculture - General KW - Environmental Engineering KW - Ecology KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Agriculture KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Pollution. KW - Hazardous wastes. KW - Hazardous waste disposal KW - Poisonous wastes KW - Toxic waste disposal KW - Toxic waste release KW - Toxic wastes KW - Waste disposal KW - Wastes, Hazardous KW - Chemical pollution KW - Chemicals KW - Contamination of environment KW - Environmental pollution KW - Pollution KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environment. KW - Analytical chemistry. KW - Noise control. KW - Soil science. KW - Soil conservation. KW - Environmental pollution. KW - Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. KW - Noise Control. KW - Pollution, general. KW - Soil Science & Conservation. KW - Analytical Chemistry. KW - Terrestrial Pollution. KW - Contamination (Technology) KW - Asbestos abatement KW - Bioremediation KW - Environmental engineering KW - Environmental quality KW - Factory and trade waste KW - Hazardous waste site remediation KW - Hazardous wastes KW - In situ remediation KW - Lead abatement KW - Pollutants KW - Refuse and refuse disposal KW - Hazardous substances KW - Analytical biochemistry. KW - Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. KW - Analytic biochemistry KW - Biochemistry KW - Chemistry, Analytic KW - Conservation of soil KW - Erosion control, Soil KW - Soil erosion KW - Soil erosion control KW - Soils KW - Agricultural conservation KW - Soil management KW - Noise prevention KW - Acoustical engineering KW - Noise KW - Control KW - Prevention KW - Conservation KW - Bioanalytic chemistry KW - Bioanalytical chemistry KW - Analytical chemistry KW - Environmental monitoring. KW - Analysis, Chemical KW - Analytic chemistry KW - Chemical analysis KW - Chemistry KW - Pedology (Soil science) KW - Earth sciences KW - Biomonitoring (Ecology) KW - Ecological monitoring KW - Monitoring, Environmental KW - Applied ecology KW - Measurement KW - Monitoring KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Environmental science KW - Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14299945 AB - The book contains the contributions at the NATO Study Institute on Exposure and Risk Assessment of Chemical Pollution – Contemporary Methodology, which took place in Sofia – Borovetz, Bulgaria, July 1–10, 2008. Rapid advances in mathematics, computer science and molecular biology and chemistry have lead to the development in of a new branch of toxicology called Computational Toxicology. This emerging field is addressing the estimation and prediction of exposure risk and effects of chemicals based on experimental data, measured concentration and biological mechanisms and computational models of biological systems. Mathematical models are also being used to predict the fate and transport of substances in the environment. Because this area is still in its infancy, there has been limited application from governmental agencies to regulating controllable processes, such as registration of new chemicals, determination of estimated exposure and risk based limits and maximum acceptable concentrations in different compartments of the environment – ambient air, waters, soil and food products. However, this is soon to change as the ability to collect, analyze and interpret the required information is becoming increasingly more efficient and cost effective. Full implementation of the new processes have to involve education on both part of the experimentalists who are generating the data and the models, and the risk assessors who will use them to better protect human health and the environment. ER -