Human health risk assessment for environmental exposure to metals in the Catalan stretch of the Ebro River, Spain

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 604-623

  Ferré Huguet, Núria ^a   Nadal, Martí ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Ebro River; Human health; Metals; Risk assessment; Soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849100092     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030902892604     Document Type: Article

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