Urinary levels of trichloroacetic acid, a disinfection by-product in chlorinated drinking water, in a human reference population

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-154

  Calafat, Antonia M ^a   Kuklenyik, Zsuzsanna ^a   Caudill, Samuel P ^a   Ashley, David L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure; Human; Trichloroacetic acid; Urine

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; DRINKING WATER; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RURAL POPULATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URBAN POPULATION; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0037293478     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5644     Document Type: Article

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