Chemical Health Threats
eBook - PDF

Chemical Health Threats

Assessing and Alerting

  1. 309 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Chemical Health Threats

Assessing and Alerting

About this book

Chemical health threats can have impacts across national borders and so may be more effectively tackled by international cooperation than by individual governments acting alone. As such, in November 2013, the European Union published the EU Decision for Serious Cross Border Threats to Health establishing a number of mechanisms for a coordinated, Europe-wide response with regards to preparedness, risk assessment, risk management, risk communication and international cooperation.

Comprising a series of chapters from leading international researchers, this book covers recent developments in the field which support the implementation of these European legal instruments. It begins by contextualising the need for data that surveillance of toxic threats can deliver, before going on to examine some of the tools that have been developed to facilitate toxicosurveillance in Europe as well as current toxicosurveillance networks outside the EU. In addition, this book covers the European Union regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and the work of the Alerting System for Chemical Health Threats (ASHT) project to improve the risk assessment and management of chemical health threats in Europe.

The volume provides a vital resource for researchers, educators, policy-makers and practitioners with an interest in key questions facing global hazardous substance control.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Chemical Health Threats
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1 - Overview of Alerting, Assessing and Responding to Chemical Public Health Threats
  7. Chapter 2 - Chemical Regulation at the European Level: Safeguarding Consumer Health and Protecting the Environment
  8. Chapter 3 - Medical Management of Mass Intoxications
  9. Chapter 4 - Hazardous Exposures to Liquid Laundry Detergents Capsules in Young Children
  10. Chapter 5 - Novel Applications of Spatial Mapping to Chemical or Biological Outbreaks
  11. Chapter 6 - Surveillance of Chemical Health Threats
  12. Chapter 7 - Responding to New Psychoactive Substances in the European Union: Early Warning, Risk Assessment and Control Measures
  13. Chapter 8 - Rapid Public Health Risk Assessments for Emerging Chemical Health Threats
  14. Chapter 9 - Review of Risk Management Measures to Mitigate Against Exposures to Household Chemical Consumer Products
  15. Chapter 10 - Understanding and Managing Behavioural and Psychological Responses to Chemical Incidents
  16. Chapter 11 - Strategic, Technical and Scientific Advice in an Environmental Emergency
  17. Chapter 12 - Public Health Preparation and Response to Chemical Incident Emergencies
  18. Chapter 13 - Chemical Incident Management: An Overview of Preparedness, Response and Recovery
  19. Chapter 14 - Investigating Outbreaks of Unknown Aetiology
  20. Appendix 1 - Case Study: Methanol Mass Poisoning Outbreak in the Czech Republic: Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcome
  21. Appendix 2 - Case Study: Fentanils: A Serious Threat to Public Health in Europe
  22. Appendix 3 - Case Study: Enschede Fireworks Disaster: Lessons Learned
  23. Appendix 4 - Case Study 4: The ANDE Fire, Paraguay, 2015
  24. Subject Index