The intentional and accidental discharges of toxic pollutants into the lithosphere results in
soil contamination. In some cases (eg, wood preserving wastes, coal-tar, airborne …

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are a diverse group of “chemicals of emerging
concern” which have attracted much interest from the research community since the 1990s …

Risk assessment of complex environmental samples suffers from difficulty in identifying toxic
components, inadequacy of available toxicity data, and a paucity of knowledge about the …

Cada día, con los avances de la industria, las zonas urbanas incrementan la concentración
y número de contaminantes, por ende, se exceden los valores permisibles (100 mg/m3) y se …

Numerous wood preserving waste (WPW) sites in the United States pose genotoxic hazards.
WPWs consist of complex mixtures containing toxic, including genotoxic, compounds which …

Wood preserving waste (WPW) sites contain numerous toxic compounds, including phenols,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, and …

This study examined mutations expressed in haploid fern gametophytes derived from spores
collected in the wild in order to assay for the presence of mutagenic compounds in natural …

Ziad Sami Naufal, BS; MPH, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Co-Chairs of Advisory
Committee: Dr. Kirby C. Donnelly Dr. Thomas J. McDonald Maternal exposure to genotoxic …

Theisen sludge is a complexly contaminated scrubber dust, which arised during the
production of copper stone. Besides high contents of heavy metals, it also contains …

Assessment of bioremediation efficacy generally involves examination of the temporal trend
in priority contaminant concentrations. However, there is increasing evidence that declines …