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Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development

Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Lubomir I. Simeonov

    1. , Solar Terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  2. Mihail V. Kochubovski

    1. of the FY Republic of Macedonia, Department of Water and Communal Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Skopje, Macedonia

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  3. Biana G. Simeonova

    1. Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  • The book includes principal works on exposure and risk assessment of heavy metal environmental pollution
  • The book includes the results of original studies on the adverse effects on child mental development
  • The book emphasizes on the contemporary methodologies for chemical analyses in the environment and in humans
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Environmental Heavy Metals and Mental Disorders of Children in Developing Countries

    • Mahmoud A. Hassanien, Amir M. El Shahawy
    Pages 1-25

  3. Exposure Assessment to Heavy Metals in the Environment: Measures to Eliminate or Reduce the Exposure to Critical Receptors

    • Maria De Lurdes Dinis, António Fiúza
    Pages 27-50

  4. Heavy Metals Activity Mechanisms at Cellular Level and Possible Action on Childrens Bodies

    • Gheorghe Coman, Camelia Draghici
    Pages 51-63

  5. Evolving Understanding of the Relationship Between Mercury Exposure and Autism

    • Thomas A. Lewandowski
    Pages 65-84

  6. Hearing Changes in Children Exposed to Arsenic in Neurotoxicity Context

    • Vladimír Bencko
    Pages 85-100

  7. Lead Occurrence in Children’s Biological Fluids from Baia Mare Area, Romania

    • Vasile Oros, Simona Roman, Mirela Coman, Anca Diana Oros
    Pages 101-122

  8. Changing Children’s Blood Lead Level in Hungary 1986–2006

    • Gyula Dura, Tamás Pándics, Péter Rudnai
    Pages 123-128

  9. Analytical Approaches for Sampling and Sample Preparation for Heavy Metals Analysis in Biological Materials

    • Elisabeta Chirila, Camelia Draghici
    Pages 129-143

  10. Heavy Metals Determination in Environmental and Biological Samples

    • Camelia Draghici, Cristina Jelescu, Carmen Dima, Gheorghe Coman, Elisabeta Chirila
    Pages 145-158

  11. Analyses of Heavy Metal Mixtures in the Environmental Media

    • Lubomir Simeonov, Biana Simeonova, Christoph Schmitt
    Pages 159-170

  12. Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (flame, electrothermal, vapour generation) in Environmental, Biological and Food Analysis

    • Dimiter L. Tsalev
    Pages 171-202

  13. In Situ Elemental and Isotopic Analyses of Heavy Metals in Environmental Water Solutions

    • Biana Simeonova, Lubomir Simeonov, Christoph Schmitt
    Pages 203-211

  14. A Heavy Metal Environmental Threat Resulting from Combustion of Biofuels of Plant Origin

    • Marta Pogrzeba, Jacek Krzyżak, Aleksandra Sas-Nowosielska, WÅ‚odzimierz Majtkowski, Eugeniusz MaÅ‚kowski, Andrzej Kita
    Pages 213-225

  15. Heavy Metals as Persistent Problem for Balkan Countries

    • Mihail Kochubovski
    Pages 227-243

  16. Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils Around Kremikovtsi Smelter (Bulgaria)

    • Anna Dimitrova, Momtchil Sidjimov, Valery Metodiev, Alexander Spasov
    Pages 245-255

  17. Comparison Study of Physicochemical Parameters Evaluation between Danube River Delta and AXIOS- VARDAR River Valley (2003–2009)

    • Fokion Vosniakos, Gabriela Vasile, Triantafyllos Albanis, Jana Petre, Elena Stanescu, Liliana Cruceru et al.
    Pages 257-286

  18. Atmospheric Heavy Metals Pollution: Exposure and Prevention Policies in Mediterranean Basin

    • Mahmoud A. Hassanien
    Pages 287-307

  19. The Problem of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Republic of Armenia: Overview and Strategies of Balancing Socioeconomic and Ecological Development

    • Yuri Suvaryan, Vardan Sargsyan, Arman Sargsyan
    Pages 309-316

  20. How to Grow Environmental – Sound Biofuels

    • Aleksandra Sas-Nowosielska, Marta Pogrzeba, Andrzej Kita, Eugeniusz MaÅ‚kowski, Hanna Sas-Nowosielska
    Pages 317-330
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Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity. Human exposure occurs through all environmental media. Infants are more susceptible to the adverse effects of exposure. Increasing attention is now being paid to the mental development of children exposed to heavy metals. The purpose of this book is to evaluate the existing knowledge on intellectual impairment in children exposed to heavy metals in their living environment and to identify the research needs in order to obtain a clearer picture of the situation in countries and regions at risk, in which the economy is closely related to metallurgy and heavy metals emission, and to recommend a strategy for human protection. In greater detail the main objectives could be formulated as follows: to review the principal sources of single, and complex mixtures of, heavy metal pollutants in the environment; to identify suitable methodology for chemical analyses in the environment and in humans; to evaluate the existing methods for measuring mental impairment, including their reliability and validity; to recommend a standard testing protocol to be used in future research; to assess the future role of environmental heavy metal pollution in countries and regions at risk and its effects on children’s neurological development; to recommend a prevention strategy for protecting children’s health and development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Solar Terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Lubomir I. Simeonov

  • of the FY Republic of Macedonia, Department of Water and Communal Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Skopje, Macedonia

    Mihail V. Kochubovski

  • Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Biana G. Simeonova

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