FDA risk assessment of seafood contamination after the BP oil spill

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dickey, Robert W ^a  

^a FDA Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; NAPHTHALENE;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84856719470     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104539     Document Type: Article

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