in this study, the effect of some toxic organic chemicals on mogan lake has been investigatedusing the aquatox model. the unique property of the model includes the sub ecotoxicological modelwhen compared to the other water quality models. the ecosystem model aquatox, which is one of the fewgeneral ecological risk models that represents the combined environmental repercussions and effects of tox...

BACKGROUND Many natural substances are classified as dangerous substances according to the European regulation on classification and labelling. Are they used in natural personal care products today? One hundred ingredient lists were analyzed to find this out. RESULTS All products with natural substances contained dangerous natural substances or they contained natural substances, for which the...

From January 1, 2000, to August 31, 2001, a team of environmental health specialists from Public Health-Seattle & King County, a partner in King County's Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, made educational visits to 981 automotive repair shops. The purpose was to give the auto repair industry technical assistance on hazardous waste management without using enforcement action. Through sit...

There is a long history of psychoactive substances being regarded as dangerous and subsequently being banned or forbidden. Often the bans were introduced on substances new and unfamiliar to a society, which were viewed as more dangerous than substances which were well known and enculturated. With industrialisation and the globalisation brought by European empires, the growing availability of ps...

Medical and informational supply of the system liquidating the consequences of accidents concerning the dangerous railway goods was analysed. Emergency cards of dangerous railway goods were described as a new type of medical and technical information. 130 of such cards concerning 567 dangerous railway goods were published in 1984, additional prophylactic sections of emergency cards for 400 subs...

Today, railway operation procedures include the transportation of large amount of hazardous substances. Our research has been motivated by the desire to find concrete and urgent solutions to the safety issues of handling waste generated manly in case of accidents and disaster situations during the transportation of hazardous substances In order to ensure safety in the transportation of dangerou...

The database contains information about the substances marketed in the European Union at present. About 8000 out of 100 000 substances on the market are listed in Annex I (Directive 67/548/EC), the published list of substances with a harmonized classification and labelling. For each entry the database gives the following details: name, CAS number, EC number, classification, labelling,specific c...