Predicting national exposure to a point source chemical: Japan and endocrine disruption as an example

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1028-1033

  Johnson, Andrew C ^a   Yoshitani, Junichi ^b   Tanaka, Hiroaki ^c   Suzuki, Yutaka ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE PILL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ENGLAND; FLOW DATA; LOCAL POPULATIONS; MEDIAN VALUE; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; POINT SOURCES; RELATIVE RISKS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; YEAST ESTROGEN ASSAY;

CATCHMENTS; EFFLUENTS; RUNOFF; SEWAGE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SURFACE WATER;

BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DILUTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HEALTH RISK; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER POLLUTION; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; JAPAN; RIVER; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; YEAST;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; FRESH WATER; JAPAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; JAPAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79851499269     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103358t     Document Type: Article

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