Research Catalog

Title

Biosolids applied to land : advancing standards and practices / Committee on Toxicants and Pathogens in Biosolids Applied to Land, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicants and Pathogens in Biosolids Applied to Land

Publication

Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Description

xviii, 345 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"...this report...searched for evidence on human health effects related to biosolids exposure and the technical methods and approaches used by EPA to establish its human-health-based chemical and pathogen standards for biosolids." -- p. xi.

Subject

• Environmental Health > standards
• Sewage
• Public Health > standards
• Sewage sludge
• Epidemiology
• Land treatment of wastewater
• Sewage sludge > Management
• Sewage disposal in the ground > Health aspects
• Sewage disposal plants > Standards > United States
• Health risk assessment > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Abbreviations -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Biosolids management -- 3. Epidemiological evidence of health effects associated with biosolids production and application -- 4. Advances in risk assessment since the establishment of the part 503 Rule -- 5. Evaluation of EPA's approach to setting chemical standards -- 6. Evaluation of EPA's approach to setting pathogen standards -- 7. Integration of chemical and pathogen risk assessment -- Glossary -- Appendixes.

ISBN

0309084865 (print)

OCLC

50871918

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library