Environmental Review: Trenbolone and Other Cattle Growth Promoters: Need for a New Risk-Assessment Framework

Environmental Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-65

  Willingham, Emily J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HEALTH RISK; HORMONE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33745675115     PISSN: 14660466     EISSN: 14660474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1466046606060042     Document Type: Review

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