information will be of particular interest to engineers , risk assessors and safety professionals in the chemical industry who have to deal with water reactive chemicals. A new revised and expanded 4th edition of Pharma-zeutische Wirksto¡e by A. Kleemann and J. Engel has been published in English as Pharmaceutical Substances: Bibliography. It contains information on over 2200 pharmaceutical com...

Negative perceptions such as fear or worry are known to be an important determinant of annoyance. Annoyance caused by noise and odour has been analysed in relation to worry about safety or health due to environmental hazards, using responses to a health survey. In the survey area high environmental impacts come from air and road traffic. The survey results show a correlation between worry due t...

Equations of state have been widely used in the petroleum and chemical industries for thermodynamic property calculation. In the presence of polar substances that self-associate through hydrogen bonding (such as water or alcohol), equations of state are of very limited use. One way to account for the association is to consider the equation of state to be formed of two contributions: physical an...

In February 2001, the European Commission (EC) released a White Paper, REACH 2001, detailing unique and unprecedented legislative proposals for the regulation of industrial chemicals, based on the Precautionary Principle. The object of these proposals was to reverse the escalating incidence of avoidable cancers, a wide range of other industrial diseases, and environmental contamination. However...

Nowadays, with the green economy becoming mainstream in the world, an industrial revolution as the core of green development has emerged. Based on the empirical evidence from China’s 30 provinces, this study establishes an evaluation index system of China’s industrial green development and applies the analytic hierarchy process to determine the indices’ weights and properties to measure the lev...

The chemical industry extensively researches and tests its products to implement product stewardship commitments and to ensure compliance with governmental requirements. In this commentary we argue that a wide variety of mechanisms enable policymakers and the public to assure themselves that studies performed or funded by industry are identified as such, meet high scientific standards, and are ...

We appreciate the interest and discussion our study reassessing animal use and costs of ReACH (Rovida and Hartung, 2009, Hartung and Rovida, 2009) has initiated. the issue has received serious press coverage in several countries. This reflects the extent of the ReACH investment into consumer product safety, and it should stimulate further discussion regarding a revision of safety testing approa...

IT should be premised that in this account of the relationship of the state to chemistry in Great Britain an attempt has been made to limit it to a description of the more or less direct assistance given by that science to various departments as they came into being or took form. Only in recent years, and as a result of the war, has there been a direct recognition of a corresponding obligation ...

the history of medicine as the history of medical science and the history of medicine as a chapter in the struggle for social emancipation. The book concludes with a most useful bibliography of the history of Canadian medicine which demonstrates that the condition of the study is not quite as desperate as Dr. Shortt has indicated. In any case, he and his contributors are to be congratulated on ...

There is a real and increasing need to monitor the presence and growth of cracks in key regions ofplant within the nuclear, gas and chemical industries [1]. A rugged, permanently attached sensor, capable of operating at temperatures in excess of 400° C, would have substantial benefits, since it would reduce the down-time costs incurred through the forced inspection of known or suspected flaws. ...