Contaminant exposure in Montrealers of Asian origin fishing the St. Lawrence river: Exploratory assessment

Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages

  Kosatsky, Tom ^a,b,c   Przybysz, Raymond ^a   Shatenstein, Bryna ^a,b   Weber, Jean Philippe ^c   Armstrong, Ben ^d  

^a Montreal Public Health Department   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Quebec Toxicology Center   (Canada)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asians; DDT; PCB; Sportfish; St. Lawrence

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; LINDANE; MIREX; NONACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN; BLOOD LEVEL; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FISHING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER;

EID: 0033003315     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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