Biomonitoring and occupational medicine. Possibilities and limitations

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-206

  Angerer, Jürgen ^a   Gündel, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological exposure values; Biological monitoring; Biological tolerance values; Occupational and environmental medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA ADDUCT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; POLLUTANT; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; SKIN ABSORPTION; STANDARD;

DNA ADDUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN ABSORPTION;

EID: 0029681734     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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