Mercury human exposure through fish consumption in a reservoir contaminated by a chlor-alkali plant: Babeni reservoir (Romania)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1422-1432

  Bravo, Andrea Garcia ^a   Loizeau, Jean Luc ^a   Bouchet, Sylvain ^b   Richard, Alexandre ^c   Rubin, Jean Francois ^c   Ungureanu, Viorel Gheorge ^d   Amouroux, David ^b   Dominik, Janusz ^a  

^a Forel Institut   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Institut Terre Nature Paysage   (Switzerland)

^d Faculty of Geology and Geophysics   (Romania)

Author keywords

Chlor alkali; Fish consumption; Human exposure; Mercury

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GUIDELINE; HEALTH RISK; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ROMANIA;

EID: 77955618057     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-010-0328-9     Document Type: Article

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