Gastrointestinal symptoms among waste recycling workers

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 153-157

  Ivens, Ulla I ^a   Ebbehøj, Niels ^b   Poulsen, Otto M ^a   Skov, Torsten ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal symptoms; Occupational epidemiology; Occupational exposure; Recycling; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010583268     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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