Longitudinal mercury monitoring within the Japanese and Korean communities (United States): Implications for exposure determination and public health protection

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1760-1766

  Tsuchiya, Ami ^a   Hinners, Thomas A ^b   Krogstad, Finn ^a   White, Jim W ^c   Burbacher, Thomas M ^a   Faustman, Elaine M ^a   Mariën, Koenraad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Exposure; Fish; Fish advisories; Hair; Longitudinal; Mercury; Reference dose; Temporal

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; KOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ASIAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HAIR; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MERCURY; MIDDLE AGED; SEAFOOD; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949121419     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900801     Document Type: Article

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