Letter to the Editor: Commentary on the levels of pesticide exposure in general and rural population based on the article titled "A comparison of infant hair, cord blood and meconium analysis to detect fetal exposure to environmental pesticides" by Ostrea et al. [Environ. Res. 106 (2008) 277-283]

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-351

  Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANEDIOL DERIVATIVE; CHLORPYRIFOS; DIMPYLATE; FENTHION; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; PROPOXUR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL AREA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FETOTOXICITY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MECONIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HAIR; NEWBORN; NOTE; POLLUTANT; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

OSTREA;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MECONIUM; PESTICIDES; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 61749099598     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.12.004     Document Type: Note

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