Polychlorinated biphenyls in freshwater fish from the Zagreb area

Arhiv za Higijenu Rada i Toksikologiju

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-309

  Bošnir, Jasna ^a   Puntarić, Dinko ^a   Klarić, Maja ^b   Šmit, Zdenko ^a  

^a Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^b Institute of Public Health for the Osijek Baranja County   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Environment; PCB; Pollution indicators

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAKE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POND; RELIABILITY; RIVER; SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; FRESH WATER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 29044451104     PISSN: 00041254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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