Categories > Health & Safety & Environmental Category     International Training Course on Environmental Toxicology     Program Duration : 5 Days Program Date : 16-20 April,2012 Program Location : Cairo, Egypt Program Fees : US$ 3200/Per Person       PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:   The course provides the student with a background of major groups of toxic substances encountered by man and animals through the food and environment, and also through exposure at the workplace. These toxicants include mycotoxins, naturally occurring toxins, N-nitroso compounds, solvents, plastics, esticides, pollutants and radiation (UV, electromagnetic, ionizing). The course focuses on the chemistry, fate and distribution in the environment, mechanisms of their actions, toxic manifestation in living organisms as well as toxic syndrome in human beings. . PROGRAM OUTLINE:  Chemicals in the environment-organic chemical distribution and routes of human exposure Principles of ecotoxicology Ecotoxicity testing and aquatic toxicology Factors affecting exposure concentrations, bio-availability and resultant toxicity Data interpretation for ecotoxicological risk assessment and risk management Orientation-general sources of information-books and websites Human exposure to chemical hazards, especially inhalation exposure Human exposure to particulates, vapors and gases Biomarkers and human exposure assessment Occupational exposure standard setting Exposure control Toxicity of industrial chemicals to humans-metallic and other inorganic elements and derivatives-speciation J.H. Duffus Metallic and other inorganic elements (continued)  Organic compounds other than solvents and gases Organic solvents and gases Hazardous waste-classification Hazardous waste risk assessment Safety evaluation, Case studies of industrial chemical hazards