What human routes of exposure are associated

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Case: For your Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health assignment, you must collect data (via scholarly/journal articles, newspapers, magazines, etc.) documenting a particular chemical that was implicated in a contamination event and has been shown to be a suspected or proven health risk. You may use five articles or 20, depending on the quality of the articles and the amount of information you
are able to derive from each, and you must have a minimum of three scholarly journal articles - this does not include EPA or other agency guidance documents, which are reports, not journal articles (though they may be used as supplemental material and may be valuable for your research). The substance under consideration may be a pesticide, heavy metal, volatile organic compound, radioactive material, etc., but not biological...and please do not go to a one-stop, non-vetted resource like Wikipedia for basic information about a contamination event - your work will be reviewed and scrutinized.

You must include a list of citations/articles with your assignment, and the citations should be listed in MLA style. Points will be deducted for improper citation of resources. Please see the following resource for good examples of this style, and please be advised that you should include web addresses/links for actual online articles, rather than the otherwise noted MLA abbreviation, 'Web':

Your paper should be three to four pages, single spaced and numbered/bulleted in format, preferably in 11 point Calibri type (no larger than 12 point size)

Event & Contaminant Properties
• In one short paragraph, please introduce the event and the contaminant responsible.
• Was this substance the cause of a contamination prior to this event? If so, how and where?
• What is the current residential population in the town where this release occurred?
• Were the residents of this area supplied by public water, or did they have private wells?
• How is this contaminant generally used (industrial, commercial and/or societal uses)?
• Was this contaminant released in a gaseous, liquid or solid form?

- Does this substance have any synergistic or antagonistic properties, if combined with another substance?

Is this substance typically found combined with other harmful and/or benign chemicals?

Human & Animal Health
• What human routes of exposure are associated with this contaminant?
• What acute and/or chronic health effects have been associated with this contaminant?
• Is this contaminant a known or suspected carcinogen, teratogen, mutagen, neurotoxin, immunotoxin or reproductive risk?
• What organs did this contaminant's toxicity target?
• Have any epidemiological studies been conducted, linking this contaminant with illness?
• Are there human/animal/cell toxicological studies citing the specific risks to this contaminant?
• What other health risks has this contaminant been shown to pose to humans and animals?
• If this was an acute exposure, were human or animal deaths or illnesses caused by this release?
• What kinds of workers might be at risk in handling this contaminant?

Environmental Health
• Through which environmental medium/media was this contaminant released?
• Did the contamination remain in immediate proximity to the source, or did it become more widespread and diffuse? If so, how?
• Was the particular incident/event in your article(s) responsible for degradation to the environment or personal property?
• Were there any far-reaching effects on the ecosystem at large, like biomagnification of the contaminant through the food chain?

Summary
• Which federal, state and/or local governmental agencies had a stake in this contamination?
• Is there, or was there, an ongoing investigation and clean up involving this event/site? (i.e., was the site declared a federal Superfund site with requisite abatement?).
• Were any fines or administrative penalties imposed on the generator, distributor or storage facility involved with this contaminant?
• What did local officials do to communicate the risk to the public or involve them in a solution?
• In your opinion, could this contamination have been easily prevented? How?

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