Risk-Benefit Analysis of Seafood Consumption: A Review

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 490-517

  Hellberg, Rosalee S ^a   Dewitt, Christina A Mireles ^b   Morrissey, Michael T ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH CONSUMPTION; FRESHWATER FISHES; GENERAL POPULATION; HARMFUL EFFECTS; HUMAN HEALTH; METHYL MERCURY; OMEGA-3-FATTY ACIDS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PREGNANT WOMAN; PROTEIN SOURCES; RISK-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMMUNICATION; FISH; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NUTRITION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

MEATS;

EID: 84865553317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15414337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-4337.2012.00200.x     Document Type: Review

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