PCDDs/PCDFs and dioxin-like PCBs: Recent body burden levels and their determinants among general inhabitants in Japan

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-37

  Uemura, Hirokazu ^a   Arisawa, Kokichi ^a,b   Hiyoshi, Mineyoshi ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^b   Sumiyoshi, Yoshio ^b   Morinaga, Kenji ^b   Kodama, Kazunori ^b   Suzuki, Taka ichiro ^b   Nagai, Masaki ^b   Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b The Study Group on the Accumulation of Dioxins in Humans   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Environmental exposure; Persistent organic pollutants; Toxic equivalents

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FEEDING; FISH; LIPIDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SURVEYS; TOXICITY;

BIOCHEMICAL FACTORS; BODY BURDEN; BREAST FEEDING; DIOXIN-LIKE POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL (CO); HUMAN BODIES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO P DIOXINS (PCCD); POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS (PCDFS); QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; RESIDENTIAL AREAS;

POLLUTION;

DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH RISK; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SMOKING; TOXICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARITY; SHELLFISH; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; BODY BURDEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FISHES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEAFOOD; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 48049116636     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.05.066     Document Type: Article

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