Screening chemicals for the potential to be persistent organic pollutants: A case study of Arctic contaminants

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5202-5209

  Brown, Trevor N ^a   Wania, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHEMICALS; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEALTH; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LEAD; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLLUTION;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION; CASE STUDIES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURES; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE; HIGH PRODUCTION VOLUME (HPV) CHEMICALS; HUMAN FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MEASURED PROPERTIES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPS); REMOTE ENVIRONMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITIONING;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARCTIC;

EID: 48249087617     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8004514     Document Type: Article

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