Applicability of two mobile analysers for mercury in urine in small-scale gold mining areas

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-67

  Baeuml, Jennifer ^a   Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^a   Lettmeier, Beate ^a   Maydl, Alexandra ^b   Messerer, Katalin ^b   Roider, Gabriele ^b   Drasch, Gustav ^b   Siebert, Uwe ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gold mining; Lumex; Mercury; PerkinElmer ; Seefelder; Urine; Vapour

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MINING; TANZANIA; URINE; VALIDATION STUDY; ZIMBABWE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MERCURY; MINING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TANZANIA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 82155197156     PISSN: 14384639     EISSN: 1618131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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