Serum PCB concentrations in relation to locally produced food items in eastern Slovakia

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 581-587

  Sonneborn, Dean ^a   Park, Hye Youn ^a   Babinska, Katarina ^b   Palkovicova, Lubica ^c   Trnovec, Tomas ^c   Kocan, Anton ^c   Nguyen, Danh V ^a   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Diet; Dietary fat; Food source; Locally produced fat; Locally produced food; PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls); Slovakia

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LACTATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL SERUM; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLOVAKIA;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; DIET SURVEYS; DIETARY FATS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SUPPLY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PARTURITION; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 42249103025     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2008.1     Document Type: Article

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