Fish consumption and advisory awareness among low-income women in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Environmental Research

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-419

  Silver, Elana ^a   Kaslow, Jessica ^a   Lee, Diana ^b   Lee, Sun ^a   Lynn Tan, May ^a   Weis, Erica ^b   Ujihara, Alyce ^b  

^a IMPACT ASSESSMENT INC   (United States)

^b Environmental Health Investigations Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

Advisory; California; Fish; Methylmercury; Women

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METHYLMERCURY; RUNOFF;

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ETHNIC GROUP; FIELD SURVEY; FISH; FISHING; FOOD CONSUMPTION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; METHYLMERCURY; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RUNOFF; TOXIN; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; AWARENESS; CALCULATION; CAMBODIAN; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FILIPINO; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MINING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CALIFORNIA; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RIVERS; SEAFOOD;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249854072     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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