Fish as biomonitors of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and hexabromocyclododecane in Czech aquatic ecosystems: Pollution of the Elbe river basin

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL1, 2007, Pages 28-34

  Pulkrabová, Jana ^a   Hajšlová, Jana ^a   Poustka, Jan ^a   Kazda, Radek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystem; Brominated flame retardants; Contamination; Fish; Hexabromocyclododecane; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Indexed keywords

BROMINATED HYDROCARBON; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; TETRABROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 47; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 40949098745     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9354     Document Type: Article

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