Impact of Pollution on Animal Products (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1402083572 ISBN 13: 9781402083570

Verlag: Springer, 2008

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The international advanced research workshop funded by NATO and entitled "impact of pollutions on animal and animal products" was organized at Almaty (Kazakhstan) on 27-30 September 2007. Thirty-one scientists from 12 countries (Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Morocco) presented conferences at this meeting to share their experience and results. The programme included three main aspects: (i) generality on the pollution situation in Central Asia and former Soviet Union republics, (ii) the pollution area and pollution origin in Central Asia and Western countries in relation with animal health, and (iii) the relationships between soil contamination, plant contamination and animal products status. The present workshop contributed highly to the exchange between scientists giving the opportunity for researchers from Central Asia to access to new scientific approaches and methodologies, and for European scientists to assess the extent of the environmental problems in this part of the world. No doubt that these exchanges were the main success of the workshop marked by very stimulating discussions. Such meeting was also the opportunity to put on the first stone of a scientific network focused on the subject of the workshop. The importance of pollution in Central Asia in general and in Kazakhstan in p- ticular is a well-known feature and several references are available on the source and localization of pollution problems in those countries. The references are also abundant on the impact of the environmental failures on human health.

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The importance of pollution in Central Asia is a well-known feature but references mainly concern the impact of environmental failures on human health. The role of animals at the interface of the contamination of resources for animal feeding and drinking, and human consumption of animal products has been little studied. Yet, animals play three roles in the links between environment and human health: (i) they are the final receptor of pollutants and, therefore, can be affected by the chronic or acute toxicity of organic and non-organic pollutants present in their environment or in their food, (ii) they can be used as sentinel of environmental pollution and, therefore, assessing their status vis-à-vis the pollutants is essential to identify environmental risks, (iii) they are a provider of pollutants for human through the consumption of their products (milk, meat, eggs, wastes). For all theses aspects, several research fields have to be solicited: veterinary sciences, epidemiology, ecology, chemistry, biochemistry, animal and human nutrition, ecotoxicology, animal production. The study of the impact of pollution on animals and animal products requires a multidisciplinary approach, including holistic and analytical aspects.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402083572
• ISBN 13: 9781402083570
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Herausgeber: Faye Bernard, Sinyavskiy Yuriy