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Chapter 10: body burdens of industrial chemicals in the general population. Body burden is defined as the quantity of an exogenous substance or its metabolites that has accumulated in an individual or population. Focus on the class of organochlorines because there is ample data on their presence in human tissues and considerable concern about their global accumulation, toxicity, and impact on human and wildlife health. 33/;/:,8-4/-:7/0341,54:9,3980892,90/- measuring the concentration of that substance in one or more tissues, usually by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (gc/ms) Chemical body burdens are complex and dynamic in a number of ways, and these characteristics make a full characterization of th00307,5:-. 8-4/-:7/03 exceedingly difficult: first, the body burden of a pollutant is not stable over time. Public health officials and scientists use biomonitoring information for surveillance, control, and treatment. The purpose of many biomonitoring programs has been to assess the health risks of occupationally or environmentally exposed individuals www. notesolution. com.

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