Volume : 1, Issue : 2, DEC 2015

STUDY OF AIR POLLUTION AND RESPIRATORY HEALTH EFFECTS ON HUMAN AND PLANT SPECIES

Achal Garg, M. Viaji Kishore, Abhishek Roy, Harinder Yadav

Abstract

The subject has long been a matter of concern since the industrialization of the country brought in its pollution hazards. Environmental chemicals pose a potential threat to health, because a large number of people get exposed to chemicals that linger in the environment. The present exposure to the environmental chemicals is more likely to produce toxicity that adult exposure. For radiation, methyl mercury, lead etc. the child is at greater risk then the adult. Subtle functional deviations in the off-springs of exposed mothers may be one of the most sensitive indications of potential harm from environmental chemicals. The consequences of prenatal environmental exposures may not be evident till the advanced age. Air pollution has come to stay in metropolitan and industrial towns. Both environmental monitoring and health monitoring of the exposed population has to be done regularly, so that the pollution could be controlled and man of today and tomorrow could live a healthier and happier life.

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