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SI:300 Introduction
to Air Pollution Toxicology (1994)
CLN 869
12 hours
1 CEU
Course Description
This course is intended primarily for air pollution control agency personnel who might
work with criteria pollutants but are not familiar with hazardous air pollutants (HAPs)
and their effects on human health. The course is multi disciplinary in its approach so
that students from diverse academic backgrounds will understand and use the information.
Issues are addressed with a level of generality that will allow students to understand the
basic principles of air pollution toxicology.
Major topics
- How air toxicants can alter body
functioning
- How adverse health effects are
measured and estimated
- Chemical classifications of air toxicants
- Air pollution history
- Air pollution regulations
- Where air toxicants are likely to be found
- Acute symptoms of exposure
- Human pharmacokinetics
- Normal body system function
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