EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Benzene, Pleiotropy, Due Date
16 Apr 2013
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Human health and the environment assignment #2. 1 a. ) i. edi air = 1. 50 g/kg*d ii. B. ) i. rmos = 4. 352: an rmos value less than one is considered an acceptable risk to exposure and an rmos value greater than one is considered an unacceptable risk of exposure. With this being said, the rmos value calculated from our edi total and rsd is about 4. 35 which is far greater than one. Thus this level of exposure to benzene is not an acceptable risk and the chemical exposure poses a potential health risk. There a number of concerns when it comes to the potential human health risks of genetically modified crops. Firstly, there has been an issue with the tendencies of these crops to provoke allergic reactions. The transfer of genes from commonly allergenic foods is discouraged unless it can be demonstrated that the protein product of the transferred gene is not allergic (world health organization (who), 2013).
