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What do you think is the single biggest What do you think is the single biggest threat to your life?threat to your life?
What do you think is the single biggest What do you think is the single biggest threat to a teenager in a developing threat to a teenager in a developing country?country?
What do you think is the single biggest What do you think is the single biggest threat to someone of my generation? threat to someone of my generation?
Ordering of Perceived RiskOrdering of Perceived RiskActivity League of
Women VotersCollege
StudentsExperts
Nuclear Power 1 1 20
Motor Vehicles 2 5 1
Handguns 3 2 4
Smoking 4 3 2
Motorcycles 5 6 6
Alcoholic Bev. 6 7 3
General Aviation 7 15 12
Police Work 8 8 17
Pesticides 9 4 8
Surgery 10 11 5
Firefighting 11 10 18
X-rays 22 17 7
Risk, Toxicology, and Human HealthRisk, Toxicology, and Human Health
G. Tyler Miller’sLiving in the Environment
13th Edition
Chapter 11
G. Tyler Miller’sLiving in the Environment
13th Edition
Chapter 11
Key ConceptsKey Concepts
Types of hazards people faceTypes of hazards people face
Methods of toxicologyMethods of toxicologyTypes and measurement of chemical Types and measurement of chemical
hazardshazards
Types and effects of biological hazardsTypes and effects of biological hazardsRisk estimation, management, and Risk estimation, management, and
reductionreduction
Risk and ProbabilityRisk and Probability
Risk possibility of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, economic loss, or environmental damage.
Risk possibility of suffering harm from a hazard that can cause injury, disease, economic loss, or environmental damage.
Probability mathematical statement about how likely it is that some event or effect will occur.
Risk = pExposure x pHarm
Probability mathematical statement about how likely it is that some event or effect will occur.
Risk = pExposure x pHarm
Risk Assessment and ManagementRisk Assessment and Management
How well do we perceive risks?How well do we perceive risks?How well do we perceive risks?How well do we perceive risks?
Most of us do Most of us do poorlypoorly at assessing the at assessing the relative risks from the hazards that relative risks from the hazards that surround us.surround us.
Major Types of HazardsMajor Types of Hazards
Cultural hazardsCultural hazards
Chemical hazardsChemical hazards
Physical hazardsPhysical hazards
Biological hazardsBiological hazardsFig. 11-1 p. 228Fig. 11-1 p. 228
ToxicologyToxicologyToxicologyToxicology
Toxicity measures how harmful a Toxicity measures how harmful a substance issubstance is. Toxicity depends on . .. Toxicity depends on . .
• DoseDose
– the amountthe amount of a potentially of a potentially harmful harmful substancesubstance a person has ingested, inhaled, a person has ingested, inhaled, or absorbed.or absorbed.
• ResponseResponse
– the type or amount of the type or amount of damagedamage
ToxicityToxicityToxicityToxicity
DoseDose - - the amount of a potentially harmful the amount of a potentially harmful substance a person has ingested, inhaled, or substance a person has ingested, inhaled, or absorbed.absorbed.
• SolubilitySolubility• PersistencePersistence• BioaccumulationBioaccumulation• BiomagnificationBiomagnification• Chemical interactionsChemical interactions
Bioaccumulation and BiomagnificationBioaccumulation and BiomagnificationBioaccumulation and BiomagnificationBioaccumulation and Biomagnification
Fig. 11-4p. 231
ToxicityToxicityToxicityToxicity
Response Response - - the type or amount of damagethe type or amount of damage
• Acute effect: immediate or rapidAcute effect: immediate or rapid
• Chronic effect: permanent or long Chronic effect: permanent or long lastinglasting
Genetic Variation in Individual Responses to Toxins
Genetic Variation in Individual Responses to Toxins
Fig. 11-3p. 230
““The dose makes the poison.”The dose makes the poison.”Paracelsus, 1540Paracelsus, 1540
““The dose makes the poison.”The dose makes the poison.”Paracelsus, 1540Paracelsus, 1540
Anything can be harmful if ingested in Anything can be harmful if ingested in a large enough quantity.a large enough quantity.
PoisonsPoisons
• a chemical that has an a chemical that has an LDLD5050 of 50 mg or less per of 50 mg or less per kg of body weightkg of body weight
• LDLD5050
– The The medianmedian lethal dose lethal dose• The amount that The amount that kills kills
exactly 50%exactly 50% of the of the animals in a test animals in a test population, within a 14 population, within a 14 day periodday period
• Determined by Determined by controlled experimentscontrolled experiments
Dose-Response CurvesDose-Response Curves
Nonthreshold Nonthreshold Threshold Threshold
Fig. 11-6 p. 233
Chemical HazardsChemical Hazards
• Toxic chemicalsToxic chemicals– substances that are fatalsubstances that are fatal
• Hazardous chemicalsHazardous chemicals– cause harmcause harm
• Flammable or explosiveFlammable or explosive• Irritating or damaging to skin or lungsIrritating or damaging to skin or lungs• Interfering or preventing oxygen uptakeInterfering or preventing oxygen uptake• Inducing allergic reactionsInducing allergic reactions
Chemical HazardsChemical Hazards
• MutagensMutagens– Cause random changes in DNACause random changes in DNA
– Passed on to future generationsPassed on to future generations
• TeratogensTeratogens– cause birth defectscause birth defects
– alcohol, PCBs, thalidomide, steroid alcohol, PCBs, thalidomide, steroid hormones, heavy metalshormones, heavy metals
• Non-transmissible diseaseNon-transmissible disease– not caused by a living organismnot caused by a living organism– is not spread from one person to is not spread from one person to
anotheranother
• Transmissible diseaseTransmissible disease– caused by living organismscaused by living organisms