Assessment of human health risk of dioxins in Japan

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-185

  Yoshida, Kikuo ^a   Ikeda, Shino ^a   Nakanishi, Junko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dioxins; Human health risk; Japanese; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CANCER RISK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BODY BURDEN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIET; DIOXINS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INCINERATION; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0033962041     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00253-2     Document Type: Article

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