Hair-biomonitoring of organic pollutants

Chemosphere

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1103-1111

  Schramm, K W ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis; Biomonitoring; Hair analysis; Limitations; Organic contaminations

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMBIENT AIR (AA); ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; BIO MONITOR; BIOMONITORING; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; ELSEVIER (CO); HAIR ANALYSIS; INTERNAL TISSUES; LONG-TERM EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; NEW METHODS; NON INVASIVE; ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS (OC);

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AMBIENT AIR; BIOMONITORING; HAIR; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHICS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PURIFICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SOLUBILIZATION; STANDARDIZATION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 45449089636     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.04.017     Document Type: Review

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