Environmental Health Hazard Analysis and Assessment

2005 ◽  
pp. 541-593
Author(s):  
Welford C. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Health Hazard

scholarly journals IMPLANTAÇÃO DE SISTEMAS DE GESTÃO DA QUALIDADE DOS ALIMENTOS: REVISÃO E ANÁLISE EMPÍRICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 96-109
Author(s):  
Tatiane Aparecida dos Santos Costa ◽  
Talita Costa e Silva Brito ◽  
Leandro Alberto de Azevedo ◽  
Estelamar Maria Borges Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Quality System ◽  
Control Points ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Critical Control Points ◽  
Quality Programs ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Analysis System

This review shows the various tools used to implemente the food quality system in food establishments. Presenting the various laws that subsidize this process, establishing criteria and instrumentes for a correct implementation of the quality system in order to offer adequate hygiene processes in the production of safe food, in addition to favoring the maintenance of companies in the consumer market. The implementation of food safety management systems such as Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) e Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), in order to guarantee the safety of the food served and portray the organization of the company. It is essential to implement these systems ensuring the quality of the servisse (planning, control and improvement). In order to achieve healthy criteria related to foodstuffs, it is necessary to implement quality programs as prerequisites of the Hazard Analysis System and Critical Control Points in food services. Regulating and inspecting are just a few points that guarantee food security, since food that does not pose a health hazard to consumers is considered safe.

Environmental Health Control for the Rubber Industry

1971 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
Environmental Controls ◽  
Hazard Control ◽  
Industrial Operations

Abstract To present a review of the health problems and their control for the Rubber Industry requires the making of certain choices relative to the breadth of the discussion. It is well known that the Rubber Industry has many facets. These involve not only the conversion of the natural and synthetic polymers into usable articles, but the manufacture of chemicals, plastics, and numerous other materials. For this reason, this review is restricted to the manufacture of the commonly used synthetic polymers and to the operations incident to the conversion of these polymers and the natural polymer into marketable products. Why should there be a concern with respect to the health problems of the Rubber Industry? (1) It is well known that many different chemicals are used, not only in the manufacture of polymers but in the conversion process. The industry is a huge consumer of chemicals, and these run the gamut of highly hazardous to inocuous. Proper environmental controls must be applied in order to handle them safely. (2) An increased emphasis by governmental agencies for a safe working environment has also been an important factor. (3) And, finally, our society as a whole shows an increasing concern with respect to all environmental factors affecting life and property. Industrial hygienists use a basic guiding principle for all environmental health hazard control: all materials are toxic to some degree, including such common essentials as water and oxygen. The problem is to determine the level or quantity at which a specific material is harmful or produces an adverse effect. The question is always, therefore, not whether a material is toxic; rather, is it hazardous (too much). It would be impossible for most industrial operations to occur if we had to have zero exposure of personnel to materials. The definition of the hazardous amount is frequently very difficult and time consuming, and involves skills of several disciplines, including those of toxicology and medicine. It requires the study of animals under controlled insult conditions and the ongoing observations of humans during their working lifetime.

Collaborative Research with Farmworkers in Environmental Justice

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Flocks ◽  
Paul Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Waste Incinerator ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Environmental Health Problem ◽  
The Continuum

Environmental injustice occurs when a particular population, most often low-income people of color, is exposed disproportionately to an environmental health hazard. On the continuum of an environmentally unjust situation, there are several stages and levels at which inequities occur. A corporation makes a decision to locate a waste incinerator in a neighborhood that, because of historical socioeconomic discrimination, has become a low-income African American community in an industrial zone. Community members are stonewalled and intimidated at a public hearing about a local environmental health problem by industry and government officials who sit far away from the audience and use technical jargon to describe the issue. Native-Americans lose an important diet staple and economic activity when an industry's runoff contaminates the fish in a body of water. These examples illustrate geographical, procedural, and sociocultural inequities contributing to environmental injustices.

Fiber contamination of vermiculites: A potential occupational and environmental health hazard

1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhad Moatamed ◽  
James E. Lockey ◽  
William T. Parry
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Hazard

scholarly journals Environmental health hazard of arsenic on epididymis and ductus deferens in male Black Bengal Goats

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
MA Wares ◽  
MA Awal ◽  
M Nasrin ◽  
MNH Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Histological Study ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ductus Deferens ◽  
Length Width ◽  
Histomorphological Changes ◽  
Haematoxylin And Eosin Stain ◽  
Black Bengal Goat

Histomorphological changes of epididymis and ductus deferens in male Black Bengal goat due to arsenic were studied. A total of 12 male Black Bengal goats, in which 6 were collected from arsenic affected areas of Mymensingh district and another 6 were collected from hill tracts of Chittagong which were arsenic free.The goats were sacrificed by piercing carotid artery and the samples (Epididymis and Ductus deferens) were collected immediately. Samples were prepared and stained with haematoxylin and eosin stain technique to study the histology under light microscope. In the morphological study, measurement of length, width, breadth and weight of epididymis and ductus deferens were observed. The gross study revealed that there were slight variations in the gross morphology of epididymis and ductus deferens of arsenic affected Black Bengal goat, but this variation was statistically insignificant. In the histological study, arsenic affected goat showing increased thickness of epididymal covering (P<0.05) and trabeculae compared to control group of epididymis. The diameter of ductule efferentes of arsenic affected goat was narrower (P<0.01), width between intertubular space of ductuli efferentes was wider (P<0.01), lumen of ductules contain smaller in amount of spermatozoa compared to control group. The wall of the ductus deferens was thicker in arsenic affected goats than the control group (P<0.01). It may be concluded that environmental health hazard of arsenic might have adverse effects on the male reproductive organs. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v11i1.18220 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 11(1): 103-110, 2013

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