...Wai‐On Phoon Reports that among the major current problems in Asia‐Pacific countries are those due to heat, heavy metals, organic solvents, pesticides, carcinogens, dusts, reproductive hazards, biological hazards, and psychosocial problems, including work stress. The relative importance differs...

...Jonathan M. Horner Paint and dust samples were collected from a children′s nursery in a London school. After chemical digestion using an available lead extraction method, lead concentrations were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Most samples analysed were considered to pose...