Chromium on the hands of children after playing in playgrounds built from chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 460-465

  Hamula, Camille ^a   Wang, Zhongwen ^a   Zhang, Hongquan ^a   Kwon, Elena ^a   Li, Xing Fang ^a   Gabos, Stephan ^b   Le, X Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Health Surveillance Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

CCA; Children's exposure; Chromated copper arsenate; Chromium; Playgrounds; Treated wood

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; CHROMIUM; COPPER; WOOD PROTECTING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ARSENATES; ARSENIC; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAND; HUMANS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; WOOD;

EID: 33644768142     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8521     Document Type: Article

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