Assessment of the temporal trend of the dietary exposure to PCDD/Fs and PCBs in Catalonia, over Spain: Health risks

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-408

  Perelló, Gemma ^a   Gómez Catalán, Jesús ^b   Castell, Victoria ^c   Llobet, Juan M ^b   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Generalitat de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

Estimated daily intake; Food; Health risks; PCBs; PCDD Fs

Indexed keywords

FAT; OIL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DAIRY PRODUCT; DIETARY INTAKE; FISH; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEA FOOD; SPAIN; TREND STUDY; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BENZOFURANS; CHILD; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855774733     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.06.077     Document Type: Article

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