Dioxins and Health Including Other Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disruptors, 3rd Edition

PREFACE xi

ACKNOWLEDGMENT xvi

ABOUT THE EDITOR xvii

CONTRIBUTORS xix

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES xxiii

1 PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS: AN OVERVIEW 1
 Daniele Wikoff, Lauren Fitzgerald, and Linda Birnbaum

2 TOXICITY EQUIVALENCE FACTORS FOR DIOXIN AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 37 
Michael DeVito

3 HISTORIC AND NEWER PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN FOOD 53
Janice Huwe

4 FLAME RETARDANTS: POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS 89 
Thomas F. Webster and Heather M. Stapleton

5 PHARMACOKINETICS OF 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-AND RELATED COMPOUNDS P-DIOXIN  109 
James R. Olson

6 IMMUNOMODULATION BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 171 
Robert W. Luebke, Jamie C. DeWitt, Dori R. Germolec, Keith D. Salazar, and Nancy I. Kerkvliet

7 DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROTOXICITY OF DIOXINS 193 
G. Jean Harry and Pamela J. Lein

8 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ON THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID 229 
Kyle Steenland, Tony Fletcher, and David A. Savitz

9 POLYBROMINATED P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZO-DIBENZOFURANS 255 
Kurunthachalam Kannan, Chunyang Liao, and Hyo-Bang Moon

10 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON CANCER AND EXPOSURE TO DIOXINS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS 303 
Lennart Hardell and Mikael Eriksson

11 REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIOXINS 359
Anne Sweeney, Deborah J. del Junco, Marcella Warner, and Brenda Eskenazi

12 BISPHENOL A 381 
Thaddeus T. Schug, Sarah A. Vogel, Laura N. Vandenberg, Joe M. Braun, Russ Hauser, Julia A. Taylor, Frederick S. vom Saal, and Jerold J. Heindel

13 PHTHALATES: HUMAN EXPOSURE AND RELATED HEALTH EFFECTS 415 
John D. Meeker and Kelly K. Ferguson

14 THE SEVESO ACCIDENT 445 
Angela Cecilia Pesatori and Pier Alberto Bertazzi

15 AGENT ORANGE: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, AND LAOS 469 
Susan Hammond and Arnold Schecter

16 THE YUSHO AND YUCHENG RICE OIL POISONING INCIDENTS 521 
Yoshito Masuda and Arnold Schecter

17 THE BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER FIRE INCIDENT OF 1981 553 
Nancy Kim and Arnold Schecter

18 THE YUSHCHENKO DIOXIN POISONING: CHRONOLOGY AND PHARMACOKINETICS 567
John Jake Ryan

19 POPs AND HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT 579 
David T. Szabo and Anne E. Loccisano