Chemical Exposures

Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment

• Marine toxins
• Dioxins and related compounds
• Heavy metals and metalloids (particularly arsenic, cadmium)
• Mycotoxins and plant toxins
• Pesticide exposures, from either occupational or environmental sources
• Heavy metal contaminants of complementary medicines
• Modelling of the behaviour of contaminants in the environment
• Prediction of the bioaccumulation of contaminants by aquatic biota
• Assistance for communities exposed to air-, water-, and soil-borne plumes from industrial emission sites