Rating endangerment of human health from pollution caused by mercury in water and food
2016
Đukić, Veljko (Paneuropean University Apeiron, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)) | Okanović, Đorđe (Institute of Food Technology, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Đukić, Biljana (Paneuropean University Apeiron, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina))
Weaknesses of current monomedium aproach of environmental exposure limits determination for socalled „threshold substances“, independently for water and food, are analyzed from the aspect of impact on the human health. Using the examples of mercury pollution in two geographic areas, the inconsistency and ineffectiveness of the risk assessment for the people is demonstrated if exposure limits are derived for each environmental medium independently. Using the example of air,water and food pollution by phenol in two areas, an attempt is made to prove that different exposure limits can be justifiably used for the same environmental pollutant in the same environmental medium if the multimedia approach is applied for deriving exposure limits. It is not necessary to apply the same exposure limit for a pollutant in an environmental medium neglecting exposure levels in other media; not to exceed the tolerable daily intake of the chemical in the human organism from all environmental media is essential.
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