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Lecture 25 - Human Health Risk Assessment of Lead and Arsenic

Learning Objectives

  1. Explore the use of lead and its impact on public health.
  2. Understand the toxicology of lead in humans.
  3. Review the neurotoxicity of lead and its impact on child development.
  4. Survey the public health approaches to mitigating lead exposure.
  5. Explore human exposure to arsenic.
  6. Understand the toxicology of As.
  7. Survey food-water As regulations.
  8. Review the Bangladesh As crisis.

Advance Reading

  1. Shibamoto, pp. 126-132
  2. Lead ATSDR ToxFAQs
  3. Arsenic ASTDR ToxFAQs

Suggested Reading

  1. Arsenicism (and subsequent pages)
  2. Toxicological Profile for Lead, ATSDR
  3. Toxicological Profile for Arsenic, ATSDR

Lecture Materials

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Lecture Activities

Keywords

  1. Blood lead level (BLL)
  2. Childhood lead poisoning
  3. Transgenerational effects
  4. Arsenobetaine
  5. Organo-arsenicals
  6. Elemental speciation
  7. Arsenicosis
  8. Keratosis
  9. Hyperpigmentation
  

 

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