Survey on levels of PCDDs, PCDFs, and non-ortho co-PCBs in soil and sediment from a high cancer area near a batch-type municipal solid waste incinerator in Japan

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 630-637

  Ohta, S ^a   Kuriyama, S ^a   Aozasa, O ^a   Nakao, T ^a   Tanahashi, M ^b   Miyata, H ^a  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Center for International Exchange   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENICITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCINERATION; JAPAN; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCINERATION; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0034080452     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001280000050     Document Type: Article

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