Lifetime health risk assessment from exposure of recreational users to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 527-531

  Hussain, M ^a   Rae, J ^a   Gilman, A ^a   Kauss, P ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND;

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PAH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SKIN CANCER;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA;

SCAPTEROMYS AQUATICUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0031709513     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900412     Document Type: Article

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