Ecological hazard assessment of dioxins: Hazards to organisms at different levels of aquatic food webs (fish-eating birds and mammals, fish and invertebrates)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 182, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 93-103

  Loonen, H ^a,c   Van De Guchte, C ^b   Parsons, J R ^a   De Voogt, P ^a   Govers, H A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

2,3,7,8 TCDD; chlorinated dioxins; food chain; hazard assessment; secondary poisoning

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

DIOXIN; FOOD CHAIN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0029668609     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)05057-4     Document Type: Article

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