Implementing the Stockholm Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 651-652

  Porta, Miguel ^a   Zumeta, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

FOOD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036796939     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.10.651     Document Type: Short Survey

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