Dioxins and Health Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors

PREFACE xi
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT xvi
 
ABOUT THE EDITOR xvii
 
CONTRIBUTORS xix
 
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES xxiii
 
1 PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS: AN OVERVIEW 1
Daniele Wikoff, Lauren Fitzgerald, and Linda Birnbaum
 
2 TOXICITY EQUIVALENCE FACTORS FOR DIOXIN AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 37
Michael DeVito
 
3 HISTORIC AND NEWER PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN FOOD 53
Janice Huwe
 
4 FLAME RETARDANTS: POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS 89
Thomas F. Webster and Heather M. Stapleton
 
5 PHARMACOKINETICS OF 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-AND RELATED COMPOUNDS P-DIOXIN 109
James R. Olson
 
6 IMMUNOMODULATION BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 171
Robert W. Luebke, Jamie C. DeWitt, Dori R. Germolec, Keith D. Salazar, and Nancy I. Kerkvliet
 
7 DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY OF DIOXINS 193
G. Jean Harry and Pamela J. Lein
 
8 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ON THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID 229
Kyle Steenland, Tony Fletcher, and David A. Savitz
 
9 POLYBROMINATED P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZO-DIBENZOFURANS 255
Kurunthachalam Kannan, Chunyang Liao, and Hyo-Bang Moon
 
10 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON CANCER AND EXPOSURE TO DIOXINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 303
Lennart Hardell and Mikael Eriksson
 
11 REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIOXINS 359
Anne Sweeney, Deborah J. del Junco, Marcella Warner, and Brenda Eskenazi
 
12 BISPHENOL A 381
Thaddeus T. Schug, Sarah A. Vogel, Laura N. Vandenberg, Joe M. Braun, Russ Hauser, Julia A. Taylor, Frederick S. vom Saal, and Jerold J. Heindel
 
13 PHTHALATES: HUMAN EXPOSURE AND RELATED HEALTH EFFECTS 415
John D. Meeker and Kelly K. Ferguson
 
14 THE SEVESO ACCIDENT 445
Angela Cecilia Pesatori and Pier Alberto Bertazzi
 
15 AGENT ORANGE: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, AND LAOS 469
Susan Hammond and Arnold Schecter
 
16 THE YUSHO AND YUCHENG RICE OIL

ARNOLD SCHECTER, MD, MPH, is Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health. He is a preventive medicine physician-researcher who has studied the effects of dioxin and related chemical exposure around the world. Most recently, his research has focused on emerging POPs and endocrine disruptors in human milk, blood, and food. Dr. Schecter has served on EPA dioxin advisory panels and ATSDR/CDC dioxin, PCB, and PCDF review groups. Moreover, he has worked with the NIEHS, NIH, and NTP to communicate dioxin carcinogenicity assessments.

"This book is certain worthy of a place on your bookshelf if you are interested in environmental contamination or POPs in general." (International Journal of Toxicology, 1 January 2013) "I would also consider it suitable as an advanced text for learning form as it indicates the range of information that has to be examined when making toxicological judgements which affect political decisions, including judgements that have to be taken in the face of pressure from lobbyists." ( British Toxicology Society New , 1 November 2012)

"This book is certain worthy of a place on your bookshelf if you are interested in environmental contamination or POPs in general." (International Journal of Toxicology, 1 January 2013)

"I would also consider it suitable as an advanced text for learning form as it indicates the range of information that has to be examined when making toxicological judgements which affect political decisions, including judgements that have to be taken in the face of pressure from lobbyists." ( British Toxicology Society New , 1 November 2012)