Dioxins and Health

This book deserves much praise. It assembles and presents an enormous amount of information in a very readable manner. Although each chapter is the product of different authors, the writing is surprisingly uniform...Dioxins and Health is an important and useful book that belongs in most institutional libraries, as well as in the libraries of any physician concerned with environmental toxicology in general or halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons in particular.' -Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine This comprehensive volume summarizes the current state of scientific knowledge of dioxins and dioxin-like substances such as dibenzofurans, PCBs, and other related chemicals. It documents a variety of toxic effects of highly persistent and synthetic chemicals on laboratory animals, wildlife, and humans. The only up-to-date book on the subject, Dioxins and Health is an excellent reference for researchers, professionals, and clinicians working in toxicology, biochemistry, public health, and epidemiology.