Chlorinated Oragnic Micropollutants -- Contents -- Sources and Fates of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins, Dibenzofurans and Biphenyls: The Budget and Source Inventory Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Physicochemical Properties and Environmental Levels -- 3 Environmental Budgets -- 4 Source Inventories -- 5 Conclusions -- Human Exposure to Dioxin -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measuring Toxicity Levels -- 3 Environmental Concentrations Reveal Ubiquity of Dioxin -- 4 Sources of Dioxin -- 5 Accumulation of PCDD/Fs in the Food Chain -- 6 Comparing Source Emissions to Deposition Estimates -- 7 Human Exposures to PCDDs and PCDFs -- 8 Conclusions -- Biological Uptake and Transfer of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Soil/Plant Transfer -- 3 Atmosphere/Plant Transfer -- 4 Transfer from Plants to Livestock and Animal Food -- 5 Transfer from Food to Humans -- 6 Transfer from Human Milk to Infants -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- 8 Acknowledgements -- Atmospheric Chemistry of PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gas/Particle Partitioning of PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs in the Atmosphere -- 3 Physical Removal Processes -- 4 Chemical Transformations -- 5 Transformations of Gas-phase PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs -- 6 Transformations of Particle-phase PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs -- 7 Tropospheric Lifetimes of PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs -- 8 Conclusions -- 9 Acknowledgements -- Human Toxicology of Chlorinated Organic Micropollutants -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human Toxicology of Organochlorine Pollutants -- 3 PCDDs/PCDFs -- PCBs -- Halogenated Aromatics and the Endocrine Disruption Hypothesis -- Acknowledgements -- Ecotoxicology of Chlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbons -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bioaccumulation of CACs -- 3 Biotransformation -- 4 Effects -- 5 Conclusions -- 6 Acknowledgements -- Chlorinated Pesticides -- 1 Introduction.

2 A Brief History of the Organochlorine Pesticides -- 3 Organochlorine Pesticide Production, Use and Regulation -- 4 Partitioning in the Environment -- 5 Environmental Occurrence -- 6 Environmental Toxicity -- 7 Conclusions -- Studies of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Great Lakes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 PCB Concentrations in the Great Lakes -- 3 PCB Fate and Transport -- 4 Bioaccumulation and Foodweb Dynamics -- 5 Summary and Conclusions -- 6 Acknowledgements -- Control of PCDD and PCDF Emissions from Waste Combustors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Investigations -- 3 US and Canadian Studies -- 4 Implementation of Good Combustion Practice -- 5 Reaction Fundamentals and Control Strategies -- 6 Summary -- 7 Acknowledgements -- Subject Index.