Second symposium on interdisciplinary activities in environmental toxicology in north rhine-westphalia, Germany: Part two

摘要

The second symposium titled "Environmental Toxicology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany-Interdisciplinary Research Activities in Toxicology, Statistics, Hygiene and Medicine" was held in Dortmund, Germany, in May 2011. Dortmund, a center of the coal, iron, and steel industries in the past, is located in the highly industrialized federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Recently, the very high exposures of workers to polychlorinated biphenyls in a transformer recycling plant located in Dortmund hit the headlines. Since 2006, the contamination of agricultural land by illegal application of industrial waste containing high amounts of perfluorinated compounds in the nearby Sauerland, a rural area in southeastern North Rhine-Westfalia, has been a major issue of general health concern.