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New Journal Focuses on Environmental
Quality
1 January 2005
Finding arsenic in the backyard need not scare suburbanites
back to the cities. Residential development on agricultural
lands that once used arsenical pesticides have caused
health concerns of arsenic exposure, but those findings
may have been overestimated, said researchers Rupali
Datta and Dibyendu Sarkar in an article published in
Integrated Environmental
Assessment and Management.
Instead, the researchers found that different arsenic-enriched
soil types did not account for an input value used in
other studies of 100 percent arsenic bioavailability,
or 100 percent absorption of arsenic into the bloodstream.
Lower bioavailability means less human health risk and
less expense in potential site clean-up.
The researchers' pragmatic approach to scientific study
is adopted in the new journal
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
IEAM focuses on scientific research and its application
in decision making, regulation, and environmental management.
Free online access is available to all articles in IEAM's
January issue until June 30, 2005. To read the journal's
full-text articles, click here: http://entc.allenpress.com/entconline/?request=get-toc&issn=1551-3793&volume=1&issue=1.
Other available articles in the first issue include:
- Protecting Native Americans Through the Risk Assessment
Process: A Commentary on "An Examination of U.S.
EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices"
- Relating Results of Chronic Toxicity Responses to
Population-Level Effects: Modeling Effects on Wild
Chinook Salmon Populations
- Effects of Dissolved Organic Carbon on Copper Toxicity:
Implications for Saltwater Copper Criteria
Integrated Environmental
Assessment and Management is a quarterly journal
of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
(SETAC). For more information about the Society, visit
www.setac.org. For
more information about Integrated
Environmental Assessment and Management, visit
http://setac.allenpress.com/entconline/?request=index-html.
[Consideration of Soil Properties
in Assessment of Human Health Risk from Exposure to
Arsenic-Enriched Soils,
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management]
2005; Vol 1 (1):55-59
Contact:
April M. Phillips
T 850 469 1500 x 28
aprilp@setac.org
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