Comparison of pesticides and other compounds in carpet dust samples collected from used vacuum cleaner bags and from a high-volume surface sampler

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 721-724

  Colt, Joanne S ^a   Zahm, Sheila H ^a   Camann, David E ^b   Hartge, Patricia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpet dust; High volume surface sampler; Pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOUSE DUST; HOUSEHOLD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032438737     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106721     Document Type: Article

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