What is it about?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a special agency of the United Nations(UN). It was established in 1948 and is concerned with international public health. Its objective is for all people to attain the highest level of health. In order to do this, the organization must control diseases, injuries, environmental pollution, etc. This chapter describes the World Health Organization and discusses its standard (acceptable limits of various contaminants present i the air, water, etc.), especially in regards to the heavy metals and several other metallic materials.
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Why is it important?
The balance between the functionality and environmental friendliness should be focused more for materials surface. From the viewpoint, WHO's standard about some available metallic materials for the environmental friendliness should be surveyed. In this chapter paper, lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium and arsenic are mentioned and their environmental friendliness evaluated by WHO's standard are explained.
Perspectives
Comparing WHO's standard with other environmental regulations established by leading nations, you can have big pictures for the environmental friendliness in the future.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: World Health Organization’s Standards from the Viewpoint of Health Risks, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55957-3_8.
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