Showing papers in "Environment International in 2012"

TL;DR: Due to potential human health risks from long-term exposure to BPA, body burden of the contaminant should be monitored.

TL;DR: An overview on the electrochemical methods devised for the treatment of pharmaceutical residues from both, synthetic solutions and real pharmaceutical wastewaters is presented and progress on the promising solar photoelectro-Fenton process devised and further developed in the laboratory is highlighted and documented.

TL;DR: A number of epidemiological studies on air pollution and population health have been conducted in China, using time-series, case-crossover, cross-sectional, cohort, panel or intervention designs.

TL;DR: There is a need for effective policies to reduce and prevent flood-related morbidity and mortality, contingent upon the improved understanding of potential health impacts of floods, which must be better reflected in flood preparedness and mitigation programs.

TL;DR: Approximate abbreviations for flame retardants (FRs) substituted with bromine or chlorine atoms or including a functional group containing phosphorus, i.e. BFRs, CFRs and PFRs are proposed.

TL;DR: The present paper reviews the current knowledge on the occurrence, bioavailability and toxic effects of trace contaminants in mangrove ecosystems and highlights the major data and methodological gaps which should be addressed to refine the risk assessment of trace pollutants in manGrove ecosystems.

TL;DR: Overall antibiotic consumption in Hong Kong was back-calculated based on influent mass flows and compared with available prescription and usage data, and risk assessment indicated that algae are susceptible to the environmental concentrations of amoxicillin as well as the mixture of the nine detected antibiotics in receiving surface waters.

TL;DR: Overall, to accurately assess the ecotoxicological risk of anticancer drugs, the need to break away from tests on isolated molecules and to test effects of mixtures at the low ng.l(-1) range is discussed.

TL;DR: Hazard Index (HI) values for all studied elements were lower than safe limit of 1 and this result suggested that none of the population groups would likely to experience potential health risk due to exposure to heavy metals from indoor dust in the study area.

TL;DR: This review provides an overview and comments on recent advances (mostly within the last 3 years) in the toxicology of CNTs, including their toxicity targeted to cells, organs, tissues and the whole organism, including mammals and other species.

TL;DR: A beneficial effect of exposure to green spaces on birth weight only in the lowest SEP group is suggested, and none of the indicators of green exposure was associated with birth weight and gestational age.

TL;DR: The state of the science regarding the concentrations of PFCs in foodstuffs, human dietary exposure to these compounds and their health risks are reviewed and the influence of processing, cooking and packaging on the P FCs levels in food is discussed.

TL;DR: Interventions to reduce car use and increase cycling and the use of public transport in metropolitan areas, like Barcelona, can produce health benefits for travellers and for the general population of the city.

TL;DR: This is the first study that estimates the carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risks posed by the inhalation of VOCs in people living near a chemical site of this size, and compares the estimated cancer risk obtained using two different standard analytical methods.

TL;DR: The results of this review may be considered to establish the objectives and strategies of a new European directive on ambient air quality and an implication for public policy in Europe is that to protect public health, anthropogenic sources of particulate pollution need to be more rigorously controlled in areas highly impacted by the Sahara dust.

TL;DR: This work quantifies health impacts and related damage costs from exposure to 133 pesticides applied in 24 European countries in 2003 adding up to almost 50% of the total pesticide mass applied in that year and identifies 33 substances now banned from the European market according to current legislation.

TL;DR: Dietary intakes varied by less than a factor of three for all PFAAs during the different sampling years which demonstrates that dietary intake has been fairly constant over the past decade when many manufacturing changes occurred.

TL;DR: Whatever epidemiological studies are, the urinary and toenail biomarkers are useful to provide indications of internal dose, and micronuclei assay can be complementary use as biomarker of early effects.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that resuspension of contaminated sediments is a frequently recurring ecological threat in contaminated marine habitats, and consideration of how marine communities respond to temporally variable exposures to RCS is required.

TL;DR: Chronic dietary exposure to pesticide residues was assessed for the French population using a total diet study (TDS) to take into account realistic levels in foods as consumed at home (table-ready), and the most frequently detected pesticides were the post-harvest insecticides pirimiphos- methyl and chlorpyrifos-methyl.

TL;DR: Conclusively, this largest epidemiologic study of NO(2) in Asian developing countries to date suggests that short-term exposure to NO( 2) is associated with increased mortality risk.

TL;DR: The present study provides some support for the hypothesis that occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of Parkinson's disease.

TL;DR: Although there was no known spill event or publicly reported use of AFFF associated with a fire event at the Hamilton airport, the airport is a likely major source of PFC contamination in the Welland River.

TL;DR: The study found that five- and six-antibiotic-resistant bacteria were widely distributed in four types of enterobacteria from the secondary effluent, which could pose a serious problem as a secondary pollutant of drinking water.

TL;DR: Alkylphenols, bisphenol A and phthalates were the main contributors to ΣOMPs and produced an estimated significant pollution risk for fish, algae and the sensitive mysid shrimp organisms in seawater samples.

TL;DR: The highest mean exposure relates to the activities with high people density, such as travelling by public transport, visiting social events, pubs or shopping malls, and the highest exposure peaks in the WiFi band, up to 0.265 W/m(2), come from stray radiation of microwave ovens.

TL;DR: Although the dose-response relationships for MMP and MEP versus sperm concentration were not significant, a significant positive correlation between MEP and straight-line velocity of sperm motion was observed, which may imply some effects of phthalate exposure on semen.

TL;DR: This study is the first to determine concentrations of PBDE replacement products and other flame retardants in San Francisco Bay, providing some of the first data on the food web occurrence of these flame retardant in a North American urbanized estuary.

TL;DR: Preliminary data suggest that milk intake has contributed to reducing the severity of DF and the apparent positive role of milk on DF, and emphasizes the importance of nutrition in management efforts to mitigate DF in the MER and other parts of the world.

TL;DR: The values of the concentrations, seasonal variations, bioaccessibility, and associated human daily intake of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in in- and out-house dust collected in Shanghai, China were much lower than most estimates in the literature, suggesting that the intake of PBDEs may have been overestimated.