Environmental Hygiene III

ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE III deals with the detection and
evaluation of environmental pollutants as well as with their
relevance to human health.
Environmental components are important determinants of the
health status of groups at risk and of the general
population. The main objective is the early detection and
identification of hazardous substances by physical, chemical
and biological methods, risk assessment andprotection of
human health.
Faced with these problems the volume gives an overview on
the mulifaceted aspects of environmental hygiene and
medicine. Contributions include basic and innovative
approaches in the fields of
- Experimental cell biology
- Cytotoxicity testing
- Mutagenicity and carcinogenicity studies
- Inhalation toxicity
- Human exposure monitoring
- Epidemiology
- Important harzardous agents
- Environmental control, prevention and legislation.