Spatial variations in the levels and isomeric patterns of PBDEs and HBCDs in the European eel in Flanders

Environment International

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 415-423

  Roosens, Laurence ^a   Geeraerts, Caroline ^b   Belpaire, Claude ^b   Van Pelt, Ina ^a   Neels, Hugo ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eel; Flanders; HBCDs; Human intake; Monitoring network; PBDEs; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; LOCATION; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

FLANDERS; HBCDS; HUMAN INTAKE; MONITORING NETWORK; PBDES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EEL; FOOD INTAKE; LIPID; METABOLISM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 77953358113     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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