Does flying present a threat of polybrominated diphenyl ether exposure?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1230-1235

  Schecter, Arnold ^a   Smith, Sarah ^a   Haffner, Darrah ^b   Colacino, Justin ^c   Malik, Noor ^a   Patel, Keyur ^a   Harris, T Robert ^a   Opel, Mathias ^d   Paepke, Olaf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FLYING; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AVIATION; FEMALE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TEXAS;

EID: 78650982361     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181fe0a8b     Document Type: Article

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