An expert meeting was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and held in
Stockholm on 15-18 June 1997. The objective of this meeting was to derive consensus toxic …

Representing toxicant‐induced changes in biological systems, biomarkers can serve as
linkers between contamination (cause) and biological effects, and therefore provide unique …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are industrial compounds that have been detected as
contaminants in almost every component of the global ecosystem including the air, water …

Hydraulic fracturing (HF) has emerged as a major method of unconventional oil and gas
recovery. The toxicity of hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water (HF-FPW) has not …

Exposure to specific polychlorinated diaromatic hydrocarbons (PCDH), such as 2, 3, 7, 8-
tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD, dioxin), produces a wide variety of species-and tissue …

One of the greatest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today is the failure of
promising new drug candidates due to unanticipated adverse effects discovered during …

Determination of environmental pollutants utilizing biodetectors such as bioassays,
biomarkers, enzyme immunoassays (EIAs), or other bioanalytical tools is a continuously …

Relative potency (REP) estimates are widely used to characterize and compare the potency
of a wide variety of samples analyzed using in vitro bioassays. Relative potency estimates …

DONALD E. TILLITT US Department of Interior Columbia, MO 65201 of human-
causedepisodes of toxicological effects in pop-ulations of wildlife species, only since World …

A fully referenced, comprehensive scientific and technical report presenting the 1998 AMAP
assessment on the status of the Arctic environment with respect to pollution, including …