Air quality assessments in the vicinity of swine production facilities

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 37-45

  Reynolds, Stephen J ^a,b   Donham, Kelley J ^a,c   Stookesberry, Jason ^a   Thorne, Peter S ^a   Subramanian, Periasamy ^a   Thu, Kendall ^a   Whitten, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health   (United States)

^c Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Ammonia; Odor; Swine production facilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002508796     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J096v04n01_06     Document Type: Article

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