Industrial chemicals

Industrial Chemicals

Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals.

Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, and cerebral palsy are common, costly, and can cause lifelong disability. Their causes are mostly unknown. A few industrial chemicals (eg, lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], arsenic, and toluene) are recognised causes of neurodevelopmental disorders and subclinical brain dysfunction....

ToxiC inhalaTional injury and ToxiC indusTrial ChemiCals

Fine Chemicals Industrial Chemicals Reagent Acids Commercial Acids Diagnostic Reagents Silicones

Contributors: D. G. Bolitho, Lexie Friend, L. M. Milligan and Janice Parker.

Chemicals, industrial processes and industries associated with cancer in humans.

The programme on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans has existed since 1971 and involves the preparation and publication of monographs that evaluate individual chemicals and, more recently, carcinogenic risks resulting from exposures to complex mixtures, since it is in this way that human populations are often exposed. Exposures occurring in the wood and leather indus...