Perfluorinated substances in human food and other sources of human exposure

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2010, Pages 179-215

  D'Hollander, Wendy ^a   De Voogt, Pim ^b,c   De Coen, Wim ^a   Bervoets, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MEAT; POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; MEAT; WATER;

EID: 77956353828     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6880-7_4     Document Type: Article

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