"Friends, chemist friends, if someone comes before you verbalizing anxiety over a chemical in the environment, don't harden your hearts and assume a scientistic, analytical stance. Open your hearts, think of one of your children waking at night in a nightmare of being run over by a locomotive. Would you tell him (or her), 'Don't worry, the risk of your being bitten by a dog is greater'?" _ Roald Hoffman, in The Same and Not the Same (Columbia University Press).
General:
Material Safety Data Sheets
Maximum allowable concentrations, maximum permissible exposure levels, biological exposure indices, and threshold limit values:
Radiation in the environment
See also: occupational health and safety, industrial hygiene.
This page is under construction - updated 22 May 2001.
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