Human health risk assessment of environmental exposure to organochlorine compounds in the catalan stretch of the Ebro River, Spain

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 662-667

  Ferré Huguet, Núria ^a   Bosch, Carme ^b   Lourencetti, Carolina ^b   Nadal, Martí ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Grimalt, Joan O ^b   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ SANITÀRIA PERE VIRGILI IISPV   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ebro River (Catalonia Spain); Human health risk assessment; Organochlorine compounds; Soils; Tap water

Indexed keywords

CATALANS; CHLOR-ALKALI PLANTS; CURRENT LEVELS; EBRO RIVER; EBRO RIVER (CATALONIA SPAIN); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; LOCAL POPULATIONS; LOW LEVEL; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; TAP WATER;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

HEALTH RISKS;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; TAP WATER;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 70349928665     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-009-9871-9     Document Type: Article

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