Exposure of Toxic Chemicals

This presentation discusses the exposure of toxic chemicals in various environments such as the workplace, homes, air, water, and soil. It explores the health impacts of exposure and provides recommendations for minimizing contamination. Topics covered include toxic substances in the workplace, respiratory and skin exposure in homes, contamination of water and soil, air pollution, vulnerable populations, and recommendations for reducing exposure.

EXPOSURE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS
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Introduction
 All processes leaves behind waste in the surrounding.
 Manufacturing and industrial practices produce hazardous substances.
 Exposure to the substances (Sarkar et al. 2013).
 Materials can travel through the air, water, or the soil (Shaw and Chadwick 2018).
 Skin contact, ingestion, and inhalation (Dionisio et al. 2015).
 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Frumkin 2016).

Exposure to Toxic Substances in the Workplace
 Toxic compounds (Abdel-Shafy and Mansour 2016).
 Person can suffer from toxic compounds (Edelstein 2018).
 Safety gears for their work surrounding (Vallero 2014).
 Typical kinds of injuries in the workplace (Rengarajan et al. 2015).
 Delayed health complications (No 2013).
 Warning signs (Yu, Tsunoda and Tsunoda 2016).

Homes
 Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
 Respirational well-being.
Water:
 Pesticides, industrial wastes, acids
 Direct skin contact.

Soil:
 Compounds like pesticides can contaminate the soil.
 Contaminate soil can also spread by the air.
 Kids tend to have regular hand-to-mouth exposure (Dionisio et al. 2015).
Air:
 Most air contaminants are of human-made origins
 Air pollution can also harm the skin and eyes.
 Adverse health impacts rely on the aspects of contact

 Kind of the chemical, dose, duration, and the frequency (Vallero 2014).
 Certain chemicals are hazardous in small quantity.
 Individuals react to compound contact in diverse ways (Kumar, Kumar, Kubendran and Kalaichelvan 2013).
 Kids in the phase of swift growth (Mahurpawar 2015).
 Body chemistry, relatively small body dimension and activity level (Hubal et al. 2014).
 The kidney filters out the hazardous chemicals (Mahurpawar 2015).

Vulnerable populace
 Persons differ widely
 Personal traits: gender, age, weight, nutritional status,
genetic composition, preexisting diseases states, and
physiologic status and lifestyle aspects (Kaufmann
2017).

Recommendations
 Minimizing air contamination is hugely a technical issue
 Technologies
 Reduce or decrease the applications of chemicals
 Embracing processes such as integrated pest management and organic
farming
 Correct treatment of hazardous waste

To conclude
 Broad range of environmental agents.
 Public need to be aware
 Various aspects of enhancing environmental health

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