Eislers Encyclopedia of Environmentally Hazardous Priority Chemicals

Thousands of inorganic and organic chemicals and their metabolites enter the biosphere daily as a direct result of human activities. Many of these chemicals have serious consequences on sensitive species of natural resources, crops, livestock, and public health. The most hazardous of these were identified by a panel of environmental specialists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; these chemicals are the focus of this encyclopedia.
For each priority group of chemicals, information is presented on sources, uses, physical and chemical properties, tissue concentrations in field collections and their significance, lethal and sublethal effects under controlled conditions. This includes effects on survival, growth, reproduction, metabolism, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, and mutagenicity - and proposed regulatory criteria for the protection of sensitive natural resources, crops, livestock, and human health. Taxonomic groups of natural resources covered include terrestrial and aquatic plants and invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

* The only product that centers on the most hazardous environmental chemicals to sensitive natural resources
* The only single volume compendium on the subject, allowing ease in consulting
* Written by a noted national and international authority on chemical risk assessment to living organisms

1. Acrolein
2. Arsenic
3. Atrazine
4. Boron
5. Cadmium
6. Carbofuran
7. Chlordane
8. Chlorpyrifos
9. Chromium
10. Copper
11. Cyanide
12. Diazinon
13. Diflubenzuron
14. Dioxins
15. Famphur
16. Fenvalerate
17. Gold
18. Lead
19. Mercury
20. Mirex
21. Molybdenum
22. Nickel
23. Paraquat
24. Pentachlorophenol
25. Polychlorinated Biphenyls
26. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
27. Radiation
28. Selenium
29. Silver
30. Sodium Monofluoroacetate
31. Tin
32. Toxaphene
33. Zinc