Site contamination health risk assessment case study involving tenant relocation from a former gasworks site

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 70, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1638-1653

  Turczynowicz, Len ^a   Fitzgerald, D James ^a,b   Nitschke, Monika ^a   Mangas, Sam ^a   McLean, Angela ^a  

^a Environmental Health Service   (Australia)

^b Department of Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 HYDROXYPYRENE; 1 METHYLNAPHTHALENE; 1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 2 METHYLNAPHTHALENE; ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; ACENAPHTHYLENE; BENZENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLOROFORM; DIBENZOFURAN; ETHYLBENZENE; FLUORENE; NAPHTHALENE; PHENOL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; TAP WATER; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; URINALYSIS; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYANIDES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PUBLIC HOUSING; PYRENES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TEXTILES; URINE; VOLATILIZATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34548303274     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390701434737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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