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| T VartiainenSummaryAffiliation: National Public Health Institute Country: Finland Publications
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Environmental chemicals and changes in sex ratio: analysis over 250 years in finlandT Vartiainen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Hygiene, Kuopio, Finland Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health Perspect 107:813-5. 1999..Moreover the trends are similar to those observed in other countries with worse pollution and much greater pesticide use...- Phosphorus and bacterial growth in drinking waterI T Miettinen
Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Appl Environ Microbiol 63:3242-5. 1997..This observation offers novel possibilities to restrict microbial growth in water distribution systems by developing technologies to remove phosphorus efficiently from drinking water... 
Molecular size distribution of natural organic matter in raw and drinking watersT K Nissinen
National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Chemosphere 45:865-73. 2001..The results demonstrate that the HPSEC method can be applied for a qualitative and also for rough estimate quantitative analyzes of NOM directly from RW and DW samples without sample pretreatment...- Dietary intakes of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and polychlorinated biphenyls in FinlandH Kiviranta
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Food Addit Contam 18:945-53. 2001..Thus, the total intake of PCDD/Fs and PCBs was 100 pg TEqday(-1) (1.3pg TEqkg(-1) b.w. day(-1)), which is within the range of tolerable daily intake (TDI) proposed by the WHO (1-4pg TEqkg(-1) b.w. day(-1))... - Molecular size fractions of treated aquatic humusT Myllykangas
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Water Res 36:3045-53. 2002..The formation of the SOA, especially of oxalate, was the greatest after hydrogen peroxide combined with ozonation (as much as 1,100 microg/L), while chlorination resulted in the SOA of < 50 microg/L... - Waterborne epidemics in Finland in 1998-1999I T Miettinen
National Public Health Institute, Division of Environmental Health, P O Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Water Sci Technol 43:67-71. 2001..In two cases the epidemic ceased by the exhaustion of susceptible persons in the exposed community but in most cases it was terminated by changing the water source, boiling the drinking water, and starting chlorination... - Use of olive oil for soil extraction and ultraviolet degradation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofuransP Isosaari
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Sci Technol 35:1259-65. 2001..Degradation was probably mediated by light absorption of unsaturated fatty acids and phenolic compounds in olive oil, leading to sensitized photolysis of PCDD/Fs... - Microbially available organic carbon, phosphorus, and microbial growth in ozonated drinking waterM J Lehtola
Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, National Public Health Institute, P O Box 95, FIN 70701, Kuopio, Finland
Water Res 35:1635-40. 2001..The results show that in water treatment not only AOCpotential but also MAP should be considered as an important factor that can limit microbial growth in drinking water... - Liver tumor-promoting activity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in TCDD-sensitive and TCDD-resistant rat strainsM Viluksela
Laboratory of Toxicology, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Cancer Res 60:6911-20. 2000..Understanding the role of transactivation domain of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in carcinogenesis is therefore likely to improve dioxin risk assessment... - Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric detection of 2- and 3-hydroxy fatty acids as methyl esters from soil, sediment and biofilmM M Keinänen
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, P O Box 95, FIN 70701, Kuopio, Finland
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 783:443-51. 2003..The rapid determination of 3- and 2-OH-FAs concomitantly with phospholipid fatty acids provided more detailed information on the microbial communities present in soil, sediment, and drinking water biofilm... - Determination of bromide ion in raw and drinking waters by capillary zone electrophoresisP Rantakokko
National Public Health Institute, Laboratory of Chemistry, Kuopio, Finland
J Chromatogr A 839:217-25. 1999..CZE results obtained with real samples were compared with ion chromatography--inductively coupled mass spectrometric results... - Mutagenicity and amount of chloroform after chlorination of bank filtered lake waterI T Miettinen
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Sci Total Environ 215:9-17. 1998.... - Changes in water microbial quality during bank filtration of lake waterI T Miettinen
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Can J Microbiol 43:1126-32. 1997..These results showed that microbial stability of humus-rich water was increased by filtration to a level generally found in natural groundwaters... - Bromide affecting drinking water mutagenicityT Myllykangas
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, PO Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Chemosphere 53:745-56. 2003..MX formation was found to be lower when the treated water contained bromide, implicating the formation of brominated MX analogues. Trihalomethane formation increased when the treated water contained bromide... - Disinfection by-products in Finnish drinking watersT K Nissinen
Division of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Chemosphere 48:9-20. 2002..A major reduction in the use of prechlorination, increased use of chloramine disinfection, and better removal of organic carbon were the most important reasons for the 69% decrease in mutagenicity from 1985 to 1994... 
Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, methyl mercury and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as biomarkers of fish consumptionA W Turunen
Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
Eur J Clin Nutr 64:313-23. 2010..To assess biomarkers and frequency questions as measures of fish consumption...- Changes in selenium, zinc, copper and cadmium contents in human milk during the time when selenium has been supplemented to fertilizers in FinlandM Kantol
Department of Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Finland
J Trace Elem Med Biol 15:11-7. 2001..Our results confirm that selenium supplementation to fertilizers in Finland has increased the selenium level in human maternal milk and most likely it also has an effect on the zinc and copper concentrations in maternal milk... - Accumulation of cadmium, zinc, and copper in maternal blood and developmental placental tissue: differences between Finland, Estonia, and St. PetersburgM Kantola
Department of Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Finland
Environ Res 83:54-66. 2000..Smoking, parity, age, and especially the place of residence affect the Cd, Zn, and Cu contents and ratios in placenta and mother's blood... - Selenium in pregnancy: is selenium an active defective ion against environmental chemical stress?M Kantola
Department of Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Res 96:51-61. 2004..These data suggest that selenium has an active role in the mother's defense systems against the toxicity of environmental pollutants and the constituents of cigarette smoke... - Monitoring dioxins and furans in a population living near a hazardous waste incinerator: levels in breast milkM Schuhmacher
Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Rovira i Virgili University, Calle San Lorenzo 21, 43201 Reus, Spain
Chemosphere 57:43-9. 2004..The results of the present study, as well as other recent environmental and biological data, indicate that living in the vicinity of this HWI should not mean additional health risks due to PCDD/PCDFs for the general population... - Developmental dental defects in children who reside by a river polluted by dioxins and furansP Hölttä
Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Arch Environ Health 56:522-8. 2001..Compared with the figures reported earlier in Finland, neither the prevalence of dental lesions nor the levels of dioxins and furans in human milk were increased in riverside residents... - Symptoms experienced during periods of actual and supposed water fluoridationM Lamberg
Department of Otolaryngology, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 25:291-5. 1997.... - Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in milk of women from Catalonia, SpainM Schuhmacher
Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Rovira i Virgili University, San Lorenzo 21, 43201 Reus, Spain
Chemosphere 67:S295-300. 2007..This study suggests that dietary intake is more relevant for human exposure to PCBs and PBDEs than living near the HWI...