The History, Toxicity and Adverse Human Health and Environmental Effects Related to the Use of Agent Orange
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6461-3_10" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-94-007-6461-3_10</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The History, Toxicity and Adverse Human Health and Environmental Effects Related to the Use of Agent Orange
Original language description
Agent Orange consist of 50 % n-butyl esters of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy acetic acid and 50 % 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. These compounds are chemical plant growth regulators, which mimic the effect of plant hormones, provoking plants into frantic growth before they wither and die. The toxicity of Agent Orange is attributed to the contamination with dioxin, which was perhaps the most toxic molecule ever synthesized by man. Agent Orange's actual effect on human health remained controversial because eventhough dioxin at certain levels was clearly capable of causing serious diseases, those same diseases could also result from other causes. Dioxin is a persistent organic pollutant that will accumulate in animal fat and plant tissues and therefore can enter the food chain. The US National Toxicology Program has classified dioxin as "known to be a human carcinogen", causing namely, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, soft tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin disease with sufficient e
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
FM - Hygiene
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Environmental Security Assessment and Management of Obsolete Pesticides in Southeast Europe
ISBN
978-94-007-6461-3
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
119-130
Number of pages of the book
481
Publisher name
Springer Netherlands
Place of publication
Netherlands
UT code for WoS chapter
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