Residential mercury spills from gas regulators

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 848-852

  Hryhorczuk, Daniel ^a,b,c   Persky, Victoria ^b   Piorkowski, Julie ^b   Davis, Jennifer ^d   Moomey, C Michael ^d   Krantz, Anne ^a,b,c   Runkle, Ken D ^d   Saxer, Tiffanie ^d   Baughman, Thomas ^d   McCann, Ken ^d  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Toxikon Consortium   (United States)

^d ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Elemental mercury; Environmental; Gas regulator; Public health; Residential; Screening; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; NATURAL GAS;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHICAGO; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 33745015516     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8401     Document Type: Article

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