Occupational and Residential Exposure Assessment for Pesticides (eBook)

Claire Franklin and John Worgan, both of PMRA, Health Canada.

Contributors.

Series Preface.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction and Overview (Claire A. Franklin and John P.
Worgan).

Section One: Exposure Assessment Methodologies.

1. Assessment of Exposure for Pesticide Handlers in
Agricultural, Residential and Institutional Environments (Richard
A. Fenske and Edgar W. Day, Jr.).

2. Development of Risk-Based Restricted Entry Intervals (Gary K.
Whitmyre, John H. Ross, Michael E. Ginevan and Delmont
Eberhart).

3. Residential Post-Application Pesticide Exposure Monitoring
(Robert G. Lewis).

4. Residential (Non-Dietary) Post-Application Exposure
Assessment (Jeffrey Driver, John H. Ross, Muhilan Pandian, Jeff
Evans and Curt Lunchick).

Section Two: Databases and Models.

5. Generic Operator Exposure Databases (Joop J. van Hemmen and
Katinka E. van der Jagt).

6. Predictive Residential Models (Yoshihide Matoba and Mark P.
van Veen).

Section Three: Epidemiology.

7. Exposure Assessment for Pesticides in Epidemiological Studies
(Dick Heederik and Kay Teschke).

Section Four: Advances in Data Interpretation.

8. Probabilistic Approaches to Aggregate and Cumulative Risk
Assessment (Robert L. Sielken, Jr.).

9. Dermal Absorption of Pesticides (Betty C. Hakkert, J.J.M.
(Han) van de Sandt, Jos G.M. Bessems and Cees de Heer).

10. Occupational and Residential Exposure Assessment for
Pesticides - Towards a Harmonized Regulatory Approach
(Christine A. Norman).

Guidelines Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.

"...will be useful to readers who need to understand exposure
science and...to conduct pesticide (and other chemical) risk
assessment...can also be used as a textbook..."
(E-STREAMS, September 2006)

"Before writing this review, I lent my copy of the book to a few
close colleagues, some of whom work specifically in the field of
operator risk assessment. Most of them ordered their own copies
straight away - I think this speaks for itself." (BTS
Newsletter, Summer 200

"...what impresses me about this publication is the quality and
eminence of the authors and the detail of knowledge that they
impart..." (Health & Safety at Work, 1st October
2005)