What biomonitoring can and cannot tell us about causality in human health and ecological risk assessments

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-86

  Stahl Jr , Ralph G ^a   Bingman, Timothy S ^a   Guiseppi Elie, Annette ^a   Hoke, Robert A ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Causality; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951002242     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030903459353     Document Type: Article

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