Pollution, pesticides and cancer misconceptions

What Risk?

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 173-190

  Ames, Bruce N ^a   Gold, Lois Swirsky ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-052100-8.50015-4     Document Type: Chapter

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