A possible approach for setting a mercury risk-based action level based on tribal fish ingestion rates

Environmental Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-68

  Harper, Barbara L ^a,b   Harris, Stuart G ^a  

^a Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Fish; Mercury; Risk; Tribe

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

CULTURE; DATA SET; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INGESTION RATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MERCURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD;

COLUMBIA BASIN; COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41949107732     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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