Emerging Chemicals and Human Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zhang, Yunhui (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Pharmacology.; Public health.; Environmental health.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Public Health.; Environmental Health.

This book mainly focuses on advances made over the past 10 years on the exposure, metabolism, transformation, toxicity, molecular mechanism and biomarkers of emerging chemicals in humans. Emerging chemicals' pollution is a hot issue in the field of environmental health. Emerging chemicals refer...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Emerging chemicals of concern
• Environmental exposure of emerging chemicals and their effects on human health
• Air pollutants: exposure, effects on cardiopulmonary and metabolic disease, and regulation
• Plasticizers' exposure and reproductive& developmental health: phthalates and BPA
• Exposure assessment of UV filter and its effect on humans
• Heavy metals' exposure and children health
• Pesticides: environmental exposure, toxicity and mechanism
• Flame retardants: exposure, biomarkers and health risks
• Perfluorinated compounds' exposure and health effects in humans
• Environmental antibiotics: monitoring and health-based risk assessment
• Advances in nano-material and micro-plastics' research.