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Road-traffic pollution and asthma – using modelled exposure assessment for routine public health surveillance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Asthma is a common disease and appears to be increasing in prevalence. There is evidence linking air pollution, including that from road-traffic, with asthma. Road traffic is also on the increase.
Daly, M., Ferguson, E.C., Maheswaran, R.
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Anthraquinone in Chinese tea: concentration and health risk assessment

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture
Recently, the safety of anthraquinone (AQ) in Chinese tea has received much attention. This study determined the concentration of AQ in 1573 Chinese tea samples by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS).
Qianqian Xie   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lack of in vivo mutagenicity of carbendazim in the liver and glandular stomach of MutaMice

open access: yesGenes and Environment
Background Carbendazim (methyl 2-benzimidazolecarbamate, CASRN: 10605-21-7) exhibits spindle poisoning effects and is widely used as a fungicide. With respect to genotoxicity, carbendazim is deemed to be non-mutagenic in vitro, but it causes indicative ...
Takako Iso   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Effects and Risk Assessment

open access: yes, 2005
Detailed risk assessments for methylmercury have been recently published by national and international bodies (e.g., the (U.S.) National Research Council (NRC, 2000), the U.S.
Grandjean, Philippe   +4 more
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Preventing suicide with a new risk assessment tool [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article was originally published as 'Testing time for risk tool' in Occupational Health magazine, August 2013, pp. 20-22. Copyright @ 2013 Reed Business Information Ltd.Sussex Community NHS Trust has been trialling a suicide risk assessment tool ...
Richardson, A, Shia, N
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Natural Occurrence of Alternaria Toxins in the 2015 Wheat from Anhui Province, China

open access: yesToxins, 2016
The exposure to Alternaria toxins from grain and grain-based products has been reported to be related to human esophageal cancer in China. In this study, a total of 370 freshly harvested wheat kernel samples collected from Anhui province of China in 2015
Wenjing Xu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Establishment and application of health risk ranking model for heavy metals in aquatic products

open access: yesZhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2020
Objective To develop a scientific and rapid risk ranking model that is suitable for the analysis of data from food chemicals surveillance system. Methods Based on the principles of food safety risk assessment, a series of index were developed for the ...
Ning MA   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enterotoxigenicity and Antimicrobial Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Retail Food in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of zoonotic agent in the world, which are attributable to the contamination of food with enterotoxins. In this study, a total of 1,150 S.
Wei Wang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures [PDF]

open access: yesJAPCA, 1987
This overview has briefly reviews the complexity of chemical mixtures, their sources, the relevance of exposure, the various interactions of chemical components, and new approaches for measuring exposure. Current quantitative risk assessment by linear extrapolation is inadequate in estimating risks.
G, Witz, M A, Mehlman
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Cues and knowledge structures used by mental-health professionals when making risk assessments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: Research into mental-health risks has tended to focus on epidemiological approaches and to consider pieces of evidence in isolation. Less is known about the particular factors and their patterns of occurrence that influence clinicians’ risk ...
Ann Adams   +27 more
core   +3 more sources

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