Biomonitoring for occupational health risk assessment (BOHRA)

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-16

  Manno, Maurizio ^a   Viau, Claude ^b   Cocker, John ^c   Colosio, Claudio ^d   Lowry, Larry ^e   Mutti, Antonio ^f   Nordberg, Monica ^g   Wang, Sheng ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Occupational health; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOMICS; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH ETHICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 73049093839     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.05.001     Document Type: Editorial

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