Health advisories for consumers of Great Lakes sport fish: Is the message being received?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1360-1365

  Tilden, John ^a   Hanrahan, Lawrence P ^b   Anderson, Henry ^b   Palit, Charles ^c   Olson, Joseph ^b   Kenzie, William Mac ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Great Lakes; Health advisories; Illinois; Indiana; Michigan; Minnesota; New york; Ohio; PCBs; Population based random digit dial survey; Risk communication; Sport fish consumption; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LAKE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031424623     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.971051360     Document Type: Article

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