The Northeast States and Eastern Canadian Provinces mercury study: A framework for action: Summary of the Canadian chapter

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 261, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 177-184

  Pilgrim, Wilfred ^a   Poissant, Laurier ^b   Trip, Luke ^b  

^a Quoddy Site of the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern Canadian Provinces; EMAN; Mercury; Northeast States

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION MONITORING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CANADA; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMAN; MERCURY; PREGNANCY;

CANADA;

EID: 0034676140     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00639-2     Document Type: Article

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