Environmental impacts of a secondary lead smelter in Landskrona, Southern Sweden

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-82

  Farago, Margaret E ^a   Thornton, Iain ^a   White, Nicola D ^a   Tell, Inge ^b   Mårtensson, Maj Britt ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Environ and Comm Health ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lead; Lead smelter; Metal concentrations; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; LEAD; SMELTING;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0032796441     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006556111092     Document Type: Article

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