Dioxinas y medio ambiente
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1697-2791
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: X congreso español y I iberoamericano de sanidad ambiental
Volume: 11
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 52-63
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Salud Ambiental
Abstract
With the generic term of dioxin is named the groups of the polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and the polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF), typical representans of the persistent organic compounds (POPs). They are obtained as not desired secondary products from several industrial process in which chlorine is used in some of its phases. The dioxins have centrated in the last decade an important part if the medical investigations in environmental health do to its notable toxicity, since they are one of the more powerful toxic chemical substances created by mankind, characterized for affecting the nervous and inmunitary system, being implicated into appearance of difference types of cancer and causing the appearance of several endocrine disorders, because of what they have been nowadays classified as endocrine disruptors. On degradation, bioaccumulation and on a large scale atmospheric transport capacity between the several environmental phases, make them to be considerate nowadays as dangerous compounds for human beings