Global technical hexachlorocyclohexane usage and its contamination consequences in the environment: From 1948 to 1997

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 121-158

  Li, Y F ^a  

^a Modelling and Intgn Res Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global; HCH; Inventory; Organochlorine pesticides

Indexed keywords

HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE;

CONTAMINATED LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HCH; INSECTICIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; BREAST MILK; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032856078     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00114-X     Document Type: Review

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