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Preventing disease through healthy environments: exposure to lead: a major public health concern

November 2019

This WHO policy brief presents the consequences of lead exposure on human health and details its toxicity in the body system explaining why it is important to reduce the use and releases of lead, and to reduce environmental and occupational exposures, particularly for children and women of childbearing age.The policy brief also lists the sources of lead releases and contamination in industrial process, drinking water and domestic sources. The brief also gives guidelines for tolerable intake levels of lead and

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Awareness-raising

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To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals

July 2023

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Characterizing the degradation behavior of chemicals in the environment is a key component of chemical hazard and risk assessment. Persistence has been successfully characterized for readily and for slowly degradable chemicals using standardized tests, but for the third group of chemicals with intermediate degradability (“middle group”), the assessment is less straightforward. Whether chemicals of this group behave as persistent or not in a given environment depends on environmental factors such as the presence of sorbents that can limit the bioavailability of chemicals.

Emerging Policy Issues: Perfluorinated Chemicals

Topics: Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

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