How to use secondary data on seafood contamination for probabilistic exposure assessment purposes? Main problems and potential solutions

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 632-657

  Sioen, Isabelle ^a,c   Van Camp, John ^a   Verdonck, Frederik A M ^a,b   Van Thuyne, Nicky ^a   Willems, Jan L ^a   De Henauw, Stefaan W J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b EURAS Belgium   (Belgium)

^c Department of Public Health ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contaminant database; Dioxins; Mercury; PCBs; Seafood; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248590718     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030701341282     Document Type: Article

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