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Zinc (Paperback)
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Zinc (Paperback)
Series: Environmental Health Criteria, No. 221
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Zinc is a common element in the natural environment. Apart from
artificially reduced zinc metal, it exists in the divalent state Zn
(II) in the environment and it is an essential element for most
organisms. It is well known that zinc deficiency causes numerous
effects in humans, including neurosensory changes, growth
retardation and delayed wound healing, but most people obtain
sufficient amounts of zinc from their diet to avoid these effects.
On the other hand, it is reported that high doses of zinc cause
gastrointestinal distress, nausea and diarrhoea.This book evaluates
the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposures to
zinc. Overall evaluation suggests that normal healthy individuals
not exposed to zinc in the workplace are at potentially greater
risk from the adverse effects associated with zinc deficiency than
from those associated with normal environmental exposure to zinc
because of its relatively low toxicity in humans and the limited
sources of human exposure.
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