Handbook of Chemical Risk Assessment : Health Hazards to Humans, Plants, and Animals - Volume One 
Subtitle:  Metals
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: April 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 760
ISBN-13: 9781566705035
Subjects: Environmental science; Pollution & threats to the environment; Sanitary & municipal engineering; Science / Ecology; Waste management; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Hazardous Waste Disposal And Treatment; Industrial Pollutants; Technology; Environmental chemistry; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Hazardous substances; Pollutants; Risk assessment; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: There is no evidence that cadmium (Cd) is biologically essential or beneficial; pn the contrary, it has been implicated as the cause of numerous human deaths and various deleterious effects in fish and wildlife.