Fragranced Consumer Products:

Fragranced Consumer Products:
Author: Anne Steinemann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre:
ISBN:

This book provides an anthology of journal articles by Dr. Anne Steinemann on fragranced consumer products: their chemical emissions, sources of exposure, and health and societal effects. The "fragrance problem" is pervasive and complex, and this research seeks to investigate and illuminate the issues of science, health, and policy--ultimately, to help people.

Get a Whiff of This

Get a Whiff of This
Author: Connie Pitts
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1414008465

1. United states was attacked dec. 7 1941, at Pearl Harbor, this was the beginning of a very hard long struggle lasting almost four years, lasting until Sept. 2 1945 2. World war ii was the most costly in lives, money, wounds & destruction since the world started! 3. My book is a very small part of the fight against evil, as Many other young, mid aged & mature men & women came to The aid of their country at the darkest hours of the Darkest hours of the history of the united states, god Bless all the victims who paid the supreme price & all the Veterans in hospitals who are still paying the price for the very hard earned victory.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Pamela Reed Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2000
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

A multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) expert helps readers understand this controversial medical condition. Worksheets throughout.

Contact Dermatitis

Contact Dermatitis
Author: Peter J. Frosch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1174
Release: 2006
Genre: Allergy
ISBN: 9783540244714

Accompanying CD-ROM includes "all clinical photographs and important diagrams"--p. [vii].

Slow Death by Rubber Duck

Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Author: Rick Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0307374017

Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us. Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal. The most dangerous pollution has always come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. Smith and Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us all the time. This book exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives. For this book, over the period of a week - the kind of week that would be familiar to most people - the authors use their own bodies as the reference point and tell the story of pollution in our modern world, the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. Parents and concerned citizens will have to read this book. Key concerns raised in Slow Death by Rubber Duck: • Flame-retardant chemicals from electronics and household dust polluting our blood. • Toxins in our urine caused by leaching from plastics and run-of-the-mill shampoos, toothpastes and deodorant. • Mercury in our blood from eating tuna. • The chemicals that build up in our body when carpets and upholstery off-gas. Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better.

The Toxicant Induction of Irritant Asthma, Rhinitis, and Related Conditions

The Toxicant Induction of Irritant Asthma, Rhinitis, and Related Conditions
Author: William J. Meggs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-01-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461490448

Untoward reactions to environmental chemicals, particularly when a subject reports difficulties with exposures to chemicals of diverse classes involving more than one organ system, have been poorly understood and an area of great controversy. Studies of airway inflammation induced by respiratory irritants have established neurogenic inflammation as the mechanism for irritant asthma and rhinitis. Remodeling of the airway after an acute irritant exposure can lead to a heightened sensitivity to irritants that persists. Recognition that rhinitis, while sometimes regarded as a trivial disease, is associated with extra-airway manifestations such as fatigue and disturbances of sleep, mood, and cognition, further elucidates how chemical exposures can be serious for susceptible individuals. This book reviews current scientific understanding of irritant airway inflammation and related conditions, including cardiovascular effects of particulate exposures, airborne contact dermatitis and irritant dermatitis, and the brain as a target organ for both allergic and irritant reactions. It is essential reading for physicians and other healthcare workers caring for patients with environmental intolerances. Allergists, toxicologists, occupational and environmental physicians, and pulmonologists will find the materials particularly valuable. Patients and advocates for those with chemical intolerances will also find the book of interest.

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design
Author: Waldemar Karwowski
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2011-06-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420046241

Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don’t even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the application of human factors and ergonomics principles to reducing risks of malfunction and the total life cycle cost, well, the process just seems to get more complex. Edited by well-known and well-respected experts, the two-volumes of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design simplify this process. The second volume, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design: Uses and Applications, discusses challenges and opportunities in the design for product safety and focuses on the critical aspects of human-centered design for usability. The book contains 14 carefully selected case studies that demonstrate application of a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate Human Factor and Ergonomics (HF/E) principles, standards, and best practices of user-centered design, cognitive psychology, participatory macro-ergonomics, and mathematical modeling. These case studies also identify many unique aspects of new product development projects, which have adopted a user-centered design paradigm as a way to attend to user requirements. The case studies illustrate how incorporating HF/E principles and knowledge in the design of consumer products can improve levels of user satisfaction, efficiency of use, increase comfort, and assure safety under normal use as well as foreseeable misuse of the product. The book provides a comprehensive source of information regarding new methods, techniques, and software applications for consumer product design.

Chemical Exposures

Chemical Exposures
Author: Nicholas Askounes Ashford
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1998
Genre: Environmental health
ISBN: 9780442025243

This text comprehensively covers sensitivity to low-level chemical exposure. Originally developed from a report commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Health, this work defines and clarifies the nature of chemical sensitivity, shows how it differs from traditional allergies, and suggests how federal and state governments can help those who are affected. A new chapter is included in this version which analyzes the most current information on the Gulf War Syndrome and other emerging environmental health problems.