Hazardous Chemicals

Overview, Toxicological Profile, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

1st Edition - September 1, 2024
Editors: Jaspal Singh, R.D. Kaushik, Malvika Chawla
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 3 5 - 4
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Hazardous Chemicals: Overview, Toxicological Profile, Challenges, and Future Perspectives offers comprehensive coverage of hazardous chemicals and their routes of exposures, mechanism of toxicity, hazard control measures, handling and storage, emergency guidelines, and safety measures.

The book is organized into specific classifications of chemical hazards: pesticides, fertilizers, insecticides, automotive, paint and paint solvents, chemical manufacturing solvents, dyes, cleaning agents, pharmaceuticals, and radioactive products. It discusses the health risk and environmental impact of these toxic substances. It also provides management strategies including risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. Hazardous Chemicals is a practical resource for researchers, academics, industry professionals, graduate and postgraduate students in toxicology and environmental science engaged in the evaluation of toxic substances and human health concerns.

Part I: Pesticides, Fertilizers, and Insecticides

1. Health risk assessment and toxicity management of organochlorine pesticide: With the reference of Aldrin

2. Ecological risk assessment of Atrazine towards toxicity, hazard and management

3. Azinphos-methyl: Probabilistic health and environmental threats

4. Environmental contamination and toxicology of Benzene-hexachloride (BHC)

5. Impact of Carbendazim on our ecological system and its management strategies

6. Chlordane: Exposure, biohazard, current research and precautions

7. Toxicity of pesticides: Health and environment risk of using Dichlor-diphenyl-trichlorethane (DDT)

8. Toxicological effect, bioaccumulative potential and risk assessment of Endosulfan

9. Naphthalene mothballs poisoning: Implications for humans and environment

10. Neonicotinoids: A potential insecticide of the decade

11. An expository note on notorious Parathion engendering risk evaluation and its redressal

12. Pyrethroids: Uses, Toxicological profile and its fate in environment

Part II: Automotive

13. Asbestos: Magic Mineral or Fatal Menace?

14. Ethylene glycol: Industrial application and risk assessment

15. Kerosene toxicity: Pathophysiology and Etiology

16. Potential hazard analysis, bioremediation and non-bioremediation of tricholoroethylene

17. PAH (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons): Risk assessment and health impacts

Part III: Paints and paint solvents

18. Acrylamide: Toxicity and carcinogenicity

19. Effects and mechanisms of acrylonitrile use-related toxicity

20. The epitome of toxic Dichloromethane (Methylene Chloride): An approach to understand Hazards and Safety

21. Methyl methacrylate: Application, risk assessment and toxicity towards human life and environment

22. Diethyl ether: Ongoing environmental correlation

23. Toluene diisocyanate: Analytical safety assessment

24. Review of the Toxicology of White spirit

Part IV: Chemical manufacturing solvents

25. Human health and environmental perspectives on exposure to benzene A review

26. Carbon disulfide toxicological overview

27. Chloroform: Current environmental challenges

28. Pyridine: Exposure, risk management and impact on human life and environment

29. Toulene toxicity: Outline, management and prognosis

30. Xylene: Overview of its origin, impact on environment, health and its preventive measures

31. Hexane and its toxicological effects: Overview, challenges and future perspectives

Part V: Dyes

32. Toxic potential of Azo dyes: A broader understanding

33. Toxicity analysis of benzidine on human health and environment: An update and outlook

34. Assessing toxicity of p-chloroaniline: Current research and future perspective

35. Toxicity studies of Cresidine: An Assessment of the human health and environment

Part VI: Cleaning agents

36. Health and safety measures associated with Ammonium hydroxide exposure

37. Quarternary Ammonium Compounds as Workhorse Disinfectant: Health and safety during COVID-19 pandemic

38. Sulfamic acid cleaning solution or environmental or human health hazard

Part VII: Pharmaceuticals

39. Barium sulfate: Human effects assessment and toxicological profile

40. Aqua Chloral: Assessing risks emanating from its noxiousness

41. Thallium chloride poisoning: An overview

42. Risk assessment and management studies of Uracil mustard

43. Role of sodium azide on environment and human health: State of the art

44. Selenium sulfide Toxicology profile: Sources of contaminations, distribution and monitoring methods

45. Melphalan: Uses, side effects, current research and precautions

46. Mercuric oxide: Importance in chemistry, current research and risk assessment

47. Nicotine & salts: Sedative, stimulant and toxicological effects

48. Silver nitrate: Properties, uses, risk assessment and toxicological effects

49. Epinephrine: Clinical uses, interaction, health risk and future prospective

50. The influence of alkylating agent on environment: Cyclophosphamide

51. Arsenic trioxide: Role in agriculture and in medical field

52. Toxicology of Daunomycin: A logical approach to risk assessment and management

53. Fate of nitroglycerine in human body and environment

Part VIII: Radioactive products

54. Nuclear reactor fuel: Uranium fuel toxicological mechanisms and emerging health risks

55. Need to remove Radio-Cesium-137 poisoning

56. Health and environment risk of alpha emitter Radium

57. Indium: Pollution potential, applications, adverse effects and control measures

58. Health effects and toxicity mechanisms of thorium: Knowledge gaps and research prospects

Jaspal Singh

Dr. Jaspal Singh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya. He has over 10 years of research and academic experience, and his research interests are chemical kinetics, synthesis of drugs, polymer science in emulsion and emulsion paint technology. He has authored book chapters and over 40 articles in reputed international and national peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as edited internationally published books. He has chaired various technical sessions, organized several conferences, delivered invited talks and presentations at national and international conferences.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Uttrakhand, India

R.D. Kaushik

Professor R.D. Kaushik is currently the Head of the Department of Chemistry for Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya. He has over 40 years of academic and research experience and has authored over 200 publications. Prof. Kaushik has chaired several conferences and participated in national and international advisory committees of various conferences, workshops, and symposia. Prof. R D Kaushik has also served as a reviewer on various reputed journals such as the Journal of Molecular Liquids, Separation and Purification Technology, Corrosion Science, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.

Affiliations and expertise

Dean, Research and Development, S. G. T. University, Chandu-Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Malvika Chawla

Malvika Chawla received her PhD in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidylaya, Haridwar. Her research focused on the development of an affordable drug for the treatment of asthma. She has over publications in reputed international and national peer-reviewed scientific journals, presented more than 10 research papers in national/international conferences, published articles in magazines and newspapers, book chapters, and edited internationally published books.

Affiliations and expertise

Founder, Academic Editing, India