Exposure of an adult population to perfluorinated substances using duplicate diet portions and biomonitoring data

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7928-7933

  Fromme, Hermann ^a   Schlummer, Martin ^b   Möller, Angela ^b   Gruber, Ludwig ^b   Wolz, Gerd ^b   Ungewiss, Jan ^b   Böhmer, Sigrun ^a   Dekant, Wolfgang ^c   Mayer, Richard ^d   Liebl, Bernhard ^d   Twardella, Dorothee ^a  

^a Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PROCESS ENGINEERING AND PACKAGING IVV   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EXPOSURE; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONAMIDE (PFOSA);

BLOOD; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUTRITION; POLLUTION DETECTION;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

HEXANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROHEXANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUTRITION; POLLUTION DETECTION;

BIOMONITORING; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SULFONATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GERMANY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLLUTANT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICOKINETICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLUORINE; FLUOROCARBONS; FOOD; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SULFONAMIDES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 36249000043     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071244n     Document Type: Article

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