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A dynamic human health risk assessment system

Toxicology International, 2012
An online human health risk assessment system (OHHRAS) has been designed and developed in the form of a prototype database-driven system and made available for the population of India through a website - www.healthriskindia.in. OHHRAS provide the three utilities, that is, health survey, health status, and bio-calculators.
Prasad, Umesh, Singh, Gurmit, Pant, A. B.   +2 more
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Assessment Factors for Human Health Risk Assessment: A Discussion Paper [PDF]

Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 1999
The general goal of this discussion paper is to contribute toward the further harmonization of human health risk assessment. It first discusses the development of a formal, harmonized set of assessment factors. The status quo with regard to assessment factors is reviewed, that is, the type of factors to be identified, the range of values assigned, as ...
Vermeire, T, Stevenson, H, Pieters, MN, Rennen, M, Slob, W, Hakkert, BC   +5 more
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Experience and lessons from health impact assessment for human rights impact assessment [PDF]

, 2015
As globalisation has opened remote parts of the world to foreign investment, global leaders at the United Nations and beyond have called on multinational companies to foresee and mitigate negative impacts on the communities surrounding their overseas ...
Wielga, Mark, Mitchell G. Weiss, Mirko S. Winkler, Utzinger, Jürg, Singer, Burton H., Winkler, Mirko S., Weiss, Mitchell G., Mark Wielga, Burton H. Singer, Salcito, Kendyl, Gary R. Krieger, Krieger, Gary R., Jürg Utzinger, Kendyl Salcito, Utzinger J, Winkler MS, Weiss MG, Krieger GR, Wielga M, Weiss, Mitchell, Singer BH, Salcito K   +21 more
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Appraisal of groundwater chemistry, its suitability for crop productivity in Sonipat district and human health risk evaluation

, 2023
The present study was taken with a primary objective to estimate the groundwater quality and its suitability toward sustainable crop productivity in an agriculturally dominant semi-urban area.
Shukla, Saurabh, Amiri, Vahab, Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar, Karuppannan, Shankar, Varshney, Sanjeev Kumar, Dotaniya, Mohan Lal, Bhattacharya, Prosun, Ganguly, Rajiv, Ravindran, Balasubramani, Senapathi, Venkatramanan, Selvam, Sekar, Khan, Ramsha, Hussain, C. M., Varshney, S. K., Khan, R., Amiri, V., Karuppannan, S., Shukla, S., Senapathi, V., Bhattacharya, Prosun,, Ravindran, B., Ganguly, R., Dotaniya, M. L., Selvam, S.   +23 more
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Association of colistin residues and manure treatment with the abundance of mcr-1 gene in swine feedlots

Environment International, 2019
Background: The extensive use of colistin in swine production may have contributed to the recent emergence of corresponding mobile resistance gene mcr-1. The use of colistin as a feed additive was banned in China in April 2017. Objectives: To examine the
Xi Xia, Zheng Wang, Yulin Fu, Xiang-dang Du, Binwen Gao, Yuqing Zhou, Junjia He, Yang Wang, Jianzhong Shen, Haiyang Jiang, Yongning Wu   +10 more
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Novel IS26-mediated hybrid plasmid harbouring tet(X4) in Escherichia coli

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Objectives: As the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes becomes an increasing global threat, improved understanding of genetic structure and transferability of the resistant plasmids becomes more critical.
Pengcheng Du, Dejun Liu, Huangwei Song, Pei Zhang, Ruichao Li, Yulin Fu, Xiao Liu, Jinli Jia, Xiaodi Li, Séamus Fanning, Yang Wang, Li Bai, Hui Zeng   +12 more
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Food Fraud Prevention: Policy, Strategy, and Decision-Making – Implementation Steps for a Government Agency or Industry

CHIMIA, 2016
This paper addresses the role of governments, industry, academics, and non-governmental organizations in Food Fraud prevention. Before providing strategic concepts for governments and authorities, definitions of Food Fraud are reviewed and ...
John Spink, Neal D. Fortin, Douglas C. Moyer, Hong Miao, Yongning Wu   +4 more
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Health Impact Assessment: The Impacts of Increasing Tree Canopy Coverage in Marion County, Indiana

, 2022
Background: Urban tree canopies help to address issues of climate change related to all dimensions of health. Certain areas of the city of Indianapolis are more prone to the negative effects that lack of tree coverage can cause.
Hosler, Heidi, Kampman, Haleigh, Whitlock, Annika   +2 more
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A 2-month field cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva of BNT162b2 vaccinated nursing home workers

Communications Medicine, 2022
Saegerman et al. perform saliva SARS-CoV-2 testing in a cohort of nursing home workers in Belgium who are either unvaccinated or have received one or two doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine.
Claude Saegerman, Anh Nguyet Diep, Véronique Renault, Anne-Françoise Donneau, Lambert Stamatakis, Wouter Coppieters, Fabienne Michel, Christophe Breuer, Margaux Dandoy, Olivier Ek, Claire Gourzones, Joey Schyns, Emeline Goffin, Frédéric Minner, Keith Durkin, Maria Artesi, Vincent Bours, Fabrice Bureau, Laurent Gillet   +18 more
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Sourcing data on chemical properties and hazard data from the US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard: A practical guide for human risk assessment

Environment International, 2021
For the past six decades, human health risk assessment of chemicals has relied on in vivo data from human epidemiological and experimental animal toxicological studies to inform the derivation of non-cancer toxicity values.
Antony J. Williams, Jason C. Lambert, Kris Thayer, Jean-Lou C.M. Dorne   +3 more
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