Prostate cancer and toxicity from critical use exemptions of methyl bromide: Environmental protection helps protect against human health risks

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Budnik, Lygia T ^a   Kloth, Stefan ^a   Velasco Garrido, Marcial ^b   Baur, Xaver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

bromomethane; carcinogenic risk; critical use exemptions; fumigant; halomethane; methyl bromide; pesticide; toxic effect

Indexed keywords

METHYL BROMIDE; BROMINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE;

BIOMONITORING; CANCER; CARCINOGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUMIGANT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITERATURE REVIEW; MENS HEALTH; META-ANALYSIS; METHYL BROMIDE; OZONE DEPLETION; PEST SPECIES; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; TOXICITY;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DATA EXTRACTION; DNA DAMAGE; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTOXICATION; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK; SHIPPING; STORAGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84859185374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-11-522284215     Document Type: Review

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