Brominated flame retardants and dechloranes in eels from German Rivers

Chemosphere

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 118-124

  Sühring, Roxana ^a,c   Möller, Axel ^a   Freese, Marko ^b   Pohlmann, Jan Dag ^b   Wolschke, Hendrik ^a   Sturm, Renate ^a   Xie, Zhiyong ^a   Hanel, Reinhold ^b   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternate BFRs; Brominated flame retardants; Dechloranes; European Eel; PBDEs

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CONTAMINATION; FLAME RETARDANTS; LIFE CYCLE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RIVERS; SILVER;

ALTERNATE BFRS; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; DECHLORANES; EUROPEAN EEL; PBDES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 84868465530     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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