Dioxin Environmental Fate and Health/Ecological Consequences

Dioxin – Environmental Fate and Health/Ecological Consequences offers a unique, and comprehensive coverage of dioxins and their congeners once they are released to the environment. The book provides readers with a systematic understanding of past and emerging sources of dioxins, current dioxins inventories and historical trends, fate and long-range transboundary atmospheric transport, human health, and ecological risk and regulatory perspective. Providing an excellent analysis of dioxin exposure through the food chain and impact on human health, it also documents the environmental implications of dioxins on ecological flora and fauna. The book offers readers a holistic understanding about dioxins, their atmospheric fate and transport, distribution in various environmental matrices and various routes and exposure pathways through which human beings are exposed to this persistent organic pollutant. It further offers an insight into the toxicological profile and mechanistic analysis of the onset of cancer, remediation technologies, and existing regulatory framework to deal with the problems associated with dioxins. The book will serve as an excellent resource to environmental professionals, particularly environmental toxicologists, environmental health professionals, remediation engineers, environmental regulatory agencies, policymakers, and environmental law professionals.

Occurrence, fate, and distribution of dioxin in the environment 1 Dioxin: history, environmental occurrence, and human health and ecological consequences SUDARSHAN KURWADKAR 2 Atmospheric fate and transport of dioxins – persistent organic pollutants SWATI BAJAJ, INDRAKANT KUMAR SINGH AND DILEEP KUMAR SINGH 3 Polychlorinated biphenyl in sediments of Subarnarekha River: levels, temporal and spatial distribution, feasible sources, and inventory BALRAM AMBADE, BASANT SHUBHANKAR, SUDARSHAN KURWADKAR, AMIT KUMAR, SANTOSH KUMAR VERMA, SARITA GAJBHIYE MESHRAM, CHANDRASHEKHAR MESHRAM AND SONU KUMAR GOYAL 4 Ecological threats of dioxin in soil GULNAZ T. JAVAN, CIGDEM YANGIN-GOMEC AND SHEREE J. FINLEY 5 Dioxin in food PERUGINI MONIA AND DANIELA ZEZZA Toxicity of dioxin: implication for human health & the environment 6 Dioxin – exposure routes, pathways, and human health implications PALLEE SHREE, MOHIT KUMAR, INDRAKANT KUMAR SINGH AND DILEEP KUMAR SINGH 7 The epigenetic effects of dioxins SIMONE O. HEYLIGER AND MARILYN D. SAULSBURY 8 Dioxins and cancer: detailed insight into the mechanism GULNAZ JAVAN, SHEREE FINLEY, ASHIM MALHOTRA AND SHIVANI SONI 9 Ecological risk of dioxin exposure KUSHNEET KAUR SODHI, MOHIT KUMAR, PALLEE SHREE, INDRAKANT KUMAR SINGH AND DILEEP KUMAR SINGH Remediation of dioxin: past, present, and future 10 Dioxin, a serious environmental threat: methods of removal GOMAA A.M. ALI, MILAD CHAHARDORI AND HAMIDREZA SADEGH 11 A review of health hazards and remediation techniques of dioxins SADAF FATIMA AND MD. OSAID ALAM 12 Environmental risks and bioremediation of dioxins MANDEEP DADHWAL, POONAM SHARMA AND INDRAKANT KUMAR SINGH

Dr. Sudarshan Kurwadkar is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at California State University, Fullerton. He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer and a licensed Professional Engineer. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Division of Environmental Quality with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. His research interests are in the broadly defined area of fate and transport of emerging contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial environment. Dr. Kurwadkar received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with Environmental Engineering emphasis from the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Formerly University of Missouri – Rolla). He is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer and a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Texas, Ohio and Missouri. Dr. Kurwadkar actively engages undergraduate and graduate students in research activities in the areas of environmental fate and transport of emerging micro-pollutants such as pharmaceuticals and neonicotinoid class of insecticides. He is an active researcher and maintain cross-collaborative research network and disseminates environmental engineering education. Besides teaching and research, he enjoys outdoor activities such as kayaking and fishing. This book is the result of his continued research collaboration. Dr. Prabir K. Mandal, Ph.D. (Genetics) is a full Professor at Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, FL. He joined EWC as an Associate Professor of Biology in 2008 and served as the Interim Chair of the Biology Department until 2010. Dr. Mandal initiated and made an articulation agreement between EWC-Life University and EWC-Palmer College of Chiropractic for a dual degree i.e. B.S. in Biology and Doctor of Chiropractic for EWC students majoring in biology. He serves an instrumental role in getting our students into the summer internship for Bioinformatics at Mississippi Valley State University and for the Florida Alliance for Health Professions Diversity. He serves as the Chair of the Institutional Review Board of EWC, executive members of the editorial board of a few peer reviewed journals of international repute. He has been awarded with the Distinguished Professor of the College during 2012-2013 and President’s Ideal Faculty in 2010 for excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, service, adhering to policy and for taking initiative to advance the college through program development.Dr. Mandal has been awarded with several travel awards to attend national and international scientific meetings viz., "7th Annual Conference on Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Research Careers" in San Diego, CA in May 2015; Science of Global Prostate Cancer Disparities in Black Men held at Montego Bay, Jamaica in November 2014; CHAAMP conference at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC in June 2013. He has developed the course BIO 290 "African-American Health", the one and only African-American health related course being taught in the State of Florida. He has published numerous research papers, editorials, book chapters, book, and made scholarly presentations in national/international scientific meetings exclusively related to the health issues of the African-Americans. He served as the lead editor of "Molecular Biomarkers: Tools in Medicine" a special edition of BioMed Research Internal and also serves as editor-in-chief of "Diagnostic and Preventive Biomarkers" a special issue of the journal "International Journal of Prevention and Treatment". He is also the reviewer of original research papers submitted to a number of peer-reviewed journals of international repute. He has been awarded several research projects (one from the Department of Health Biomedical Research Program, State of Florida for $50,000, National Library of Medicine; the National Library of Medicine-National Institute of Health for $20,000 and a few smaller grants from Florida Sea Grants including Elise B. Newell Seminar series awards) also exclusively related to the African-American Health.Dr. Mandal is the Principal Investigator/Liaison of Edward Waters College chapter for the $1.6 M research project titled "OneFlorida Cancer Control Network (CCN)" awarded to Dr. Elizabeth Shenkman, P.I. of University of Florida by Florida Department of Health Biomedical Research program. He also serves as the member of the CCN Executive Steering Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee. He is part of the Research Advisory Council of Florida State Health Diversity Research. He has research collaboration(s) with (1) the nutrition program at the University of North Florida, (2) NSF proposal on the development and application of clinical courses with problem based learning in the undergraduate curriculum, (3) NIH proposal R25 grant for Florida Minority Oncology Research Education (MORE) program on prostate cancer research consortium with the University of Florida. He also serves as a member of the steering committe