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Flame retardants : tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate, tris(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate and tetrakis(hydroxymethyl) phosphonium salts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Esch, G. J. van
Corporate Authors: United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organisation, World Health Organization, Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, International Program on Chemical Safety, WHO Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria for Flame Retardants
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Summary in French and Spanish.
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2000.
Series:Environmental health criteria. 218.
Subjects:
Organophosphates > toxicity.
Environmental Exposure.
Flame Retardants > toxicity.
No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level.
Organophosphorus Compounds > toxicity.
Risk Assessment.
Table of Contents:
  • Summary, evaluation and recommendations
  • Identity, physical and chemical properties, and analytical methods
  • Sources of human and environmental exposure
  • Environmental transport, distribution and transformation
  • Environmental levels and human exposure
  • Kinetic and metabolism in laboratory animals and humans
  • Effects on laboratory mammals and in vitro test systems
  • Effects on humans
  • Effects on other organisms in the laboratory and field
  • Previous evaluations by international bodies