Justification of measurement of eight congeners levels instead of twenty congeners of dioxins for mass screening of human exposure

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 163-168

  Kitamura, Kimiyoshi ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Kazuyuki ^a   Iwama, Masahiko ^a   Nagao, Minako ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood; Dioxin congeners; High accuracy; High efficiency; Low cost

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034865770     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.26.163     Document Type: Article

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