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2148914 
Technical Report 
Online catalogs for the Environmental Health Criteria Series 
World Health Organization :: WHO 
2010 
WHO 
Geneva, Switzerland 
is also published as 11350326 Online catalogs for the Environmental Health Criteria series
Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) documents provide international, critical reviews on the effects of chemicals or combinations of chemicals and physical and biological agents on human health and the environment.

Each EHC follows a standard outline or format, and you can expect to find a summary of the whole document followed by information on identity, sources of exposure, environmental transport, distribution and transformation, environmental levels and human exposure, kinetics and metabolism in laboratory animals and humans, effects on laboratory animals and in vitro test systems. Effects on humans; effects on other organisms in the laboratory and field. An overall evaluation and conclusions for the protection of human health and the environment is found at the end of each document together with needs for further research and details of previous evaluations by international bodies e.g. IARC, JEFCA.

Two different series of Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) documents are available: (1) on specific chemicals or groups of related chemicals; and (2) on risk assessment methodologies. Both are accessible from the numerical listing below. In addition the EHCs on risk assessment methodologies are accessible from the listing of all IPCS methodology publications and projects.