Approximately 40 million people live within a 4-mile radius of waste sites that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has assessed to date. Human populations living in the vicinity of such sites are often subjected to complex chemical exposures that may contribute to the total body burden of oxogenous chemicals. Apart from the contaminants found at waste sites, exposure m...

To predict the long-term fate of lowand high-level waste forms in the subsurface over geologic time scales, it is important to understand the behavior of the corroding waste forms under conditions that closely mimic to the open flow and transport properties of a subsurface repository. Fluidized bed steam reformation (FBSR), a supplemental treatment technology option, is being considered as a wa...

Correspondence: Satya Prakash Biomedical Technology and Cell Therapy research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Québec, H3A 2B4, Canada Fax +1 514 398 7461 email [email protected] Abstract: Renal insufficiency leads to uremia, a complicated syndrome. It thus becomes vital to reduce waste metabolites ...

Concern about environmental pollutants has increased; however, it remains unclear whether chronic exposures to toxic chemicals in the environment occur at doses sufficient to produce adverse health effects in humans. To date, community studies have not adequately addressed this question. In this study, the authors linked two existing data bases of the New York State Department of Health to eval...

BACKGROUND Toxic waste sites contain a broad range of suspected or confirmed human carcinogens, and remain a source of concern to many people, particularly those living in the vicinity of a site. Despite years of study, a consensus has not emerged regarding the cancer risk associated with such sites. METHODS We examined the published, peer-reviewed literature addressing cancer incidence or mo...

The term "triangle of death" was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area....

Background and objectivesThis work aimed to evaluate the phenolic profile antioxidant capacity of water extracts three different date seed varieties i.e., Aseel, Karbalaen Khupro. Date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) seeds are available in bulk quantities after manufacturing pitted dates or syrup considered as waste stream.

Renal insufficiency leads to uremia, a complicated syndrome. It thus becomes vital to reduce waste metabolites and regulate water and electrolytes in kidney failure. The most common treatment of this disease is either dialysis or transplantation. Although these treatments are very effective, they are extremely costly. Recently artificial cells, microencapsulated live bacterial cells, and other ...

Development of new technologies for the efficient use of proteins of animal origin, apart from heat treatment in rendering facilities that was used to date, has become the primary goal of the integral waste management system. The emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Europe and in the World in the 1990s opened up new questions regarding medical safety and use of meat bone meal in the...