Dioxins: An overview and history

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-20

  Hites, Ronald A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICANTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

1,2,3,7,8,9 HEXACHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; 1,2,4,5 TETRACHLOROBENZENE; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; 2,4,5 TRICHLOROPHENOL; 2,4,5 TRICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; DIOXIN; HEXACHLOROPHENE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DIOXIN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHICK EDEMA DISEASE; COMBUSTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; LEATHER INDUSTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; REVIEW; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

2,4,5-TRICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BENZOFURANS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 78650689256     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1013664     Document Type: Review

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