Airborne PBDEs in specialized occupational settings, houses and outdoor urban areas in Greece

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 375-382

  Mandalakis, Manolis ^a   Atsarou, Vassiliki ^a   Stephanou, Euripides G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Houses; Indoor outdoor air; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs); Workplaces

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

GEOMETRIC MEAN (MG); POLY-BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDE); URBAN AREAS; URBAN OUTDOOR;

ETHERS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDOOR AIR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCCUPATION; PBDE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WORKPLACE;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GREECE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; URBAN AREA; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CITIES; COMMERCE; COMPUTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTERS; ETHERS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FLAME RETARDANTS; GREECE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 48449083661     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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