Lead exposures from car batteries - A global problem

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Fuller, Richard ^a  

^a Blacksmith Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

BATTERY INDUSTRY; CAR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; LEAD POISONING; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD;

EID: 75349096685     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901163     Document Type: Letter

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