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QUANTITATIVE HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT RESULTING FROM GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION OF AN ABANDONED OPEN FIELD CHEMICAL WASTE BURNING SITE

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Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution

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Abstract

Quantitative human health risk assessment was performed for the evaluation of health threat resulting from the chemical contamination of the soil and groundwater in the area of the former open field pharmaceutical waste burning site. The main aim of the study was the determination of the remediation target-value, in compliance with the No. 219/2004. (VII. 21.) Hungarian Government Decree on “The protection of groundwaters”.

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  1. Fodor Jozsef National Centre for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Gyali ut 2-6., Budapest, Hungary

    GYULA DURA

  2. Szent István University, Gödöllõ, Hungary

    SANDOR SZOBOSZLAI, BALAZS KRISZT, ZOLTAN PRIVLER & SANDOR RUZS-MOLNAR

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  1. GYULA DURA
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  1. National Institute of Environmental Health of “Jozsef Fodor” National Center for Public Health, Budapest, Hungary

    Gyula Dura

  2. National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Veska Kambourova

  3. National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology and Nutrition, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Fina Simeonova

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DURA, G., SZOBOSZLAI, S., KRISZT, B., PRIVLER, Z., RUZS-MOLNAR, S. (2006). QUANTITATIVE HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT RESULTING FROM GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION OF AN ABANDONED OPEN FIELD CHEMICAL WASTE BURNING SITE. In: Dura, G., Kambourova, V., Simeonova, F. (eds) Management of Intentional and Accidental Water Pollution. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4800-9_2

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