Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, Bd. 23: Low dose exposures in the environment: dose-effect relations and risk evaluation

C. Streffer, H. Bolt, D. Follesdal, P. Hall, J.G. Hengstler, P. Jacob, D Oughton, K. Prieß, E. Rehbinder, E. Swaton

The ever-increasing release of harmful agents due to human activities have led in some areas of the world to heavy pollution. In order to protect human health and the environment, environmental standards that shall limit the release and the concentration of those toxic agents in the environment and hence the exposure to it have to be established. The related assessment and decision-making procedures have to be based on solid scientific data about the effects and mechanisms of these agents as well as on ethical, social and economic aspects. For risk evaluation, the knowledge of the dose response curve is an essential prerequisite. Dose responses without a threshold dose are most critical in this connection. Such dose responses are assumed for mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, which, therefore, dominate also the discussion in this book. In the environmentally important low dose range,...

See on goodreads