Health Effects
Immune system (including sensitization and allergies)
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Chemical Families related to Immune system (including sensitization and allergies): Chlorinated dioxins & furans, Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Phthalates, Perfluorochemicals (PFCs), Brominated dioxins & furans, Nitro- and polycylic- musks, Substituted benzenes, Phenols, Cresols, Metals, Vanadium compounds, Terpenoids, Natural products, Botanical essential oils, Air pollutants, Volatile and semivolatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs), Epoxides
Routes of Exposure related to Immune system (including sensitization and allergies):
- Air: air pollution, industrial air pollution
- Consumer products: carpets, cars, clothing, detergents, plastics
- Environment: agriculture, industrial water pollution, rain
- Food: contaminants, fatty foods, fish, food packaging, popcorn
- Found in people
- Miscellaneous: electrical insulators, electrical transformers, manufacturing, medical tubing, occupational
- Personal care products: contaminants
- Water: contaminants, sewage sludge, tap water, water treatment
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