Multi-route risk assessment from trihalomethanes in drinking water supplies

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 121-134

  Basu, Mrittika ^a   Gupta, Sunil Kumar ^a   Singh, Gurdeep ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Ujjal ^b  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

^b West Bengal Pollution Control Board   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Hazard index; Inhalation exposure; Trihalomethanes

Indexed keywords

BREAKPOINT; BROMOFORM; CANCER RISK; DERMAL ABSORPTION; DERMAL CONTACTS; EXPOSURE PATHWAYS; HAZARD INDEX; HAZARD INDICES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MULTIPLE ROUTES; NONCARCINOGENIC RISK; ORAL EXPOSURE; ORAL INGESTION; ORAL ROUTE; REGULATORY ISSUES; TORNADO DIAGRAMS; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER SAMPLES;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISEASES; POTABLE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

HEALTH RISKS;

BROMIDE; BROMODICHLOROMETHANE; BROMOFORM; CHLOROFORM; DIBROMOCHLOROMETHANE; DRINKING WATER; TRIHALOMETHANE;

CANCER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INGESTION; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN ABSORPTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79960409592     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1677-z     Document Type: Article

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