Human exposure to dioxins and furans: Application of the Substance Flow Analysis to health risk assessment

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 241-249

  Fuster, Gerard ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

(PCDD PCDFs); Dioxins and furans; Health risk assessment; Human exposure; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins and dibenzofurans; Substance flow analysis (SFA); Tarragona Province, Spain

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; FURAN; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SPAIN;

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; POLYCHLORODIBENZO-4-DIOXIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; POLLUTANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036046968     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987498     Document Type: Article

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