Body Burden of PCB in Whole Human Blood of 7 - 10-Year-Old Children Living in the Vicinity of a Hazardous Waste Incinerator;Körperlast an polychlorierten Biphenylen im Vollblut bei 7 - 10jährigen Kindern in der Umgebung einer Sonderabfallverbrennungsanlage

Gesundheitswesen

Volumn 60, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 505-512

  Höldke, Birgitt ^a   Karmaus, W ^a   Kruse, H ^b  

^a NORDIG Inst F G   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood; Children; Environment; Human biomonitoring; Industrial area; PCB; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Toxic waste incinerator

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INCINERATION; MALE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMANS; INCINERATION; MALE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 0032130877     PISSN: 09413790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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