Human Health Risk Assessment of Soils Contaminated with Metal(loid)s by Using DGT Uptake: A Case Study of a Former Korean Metal Refinery Site

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 767-777

  Bade, Rabindra ^a   Oh, Sanghwa ^a   Shin, Won Sik ^a   Hwang, Inseong ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

diffusive gradients in thin films; hazardous index; human health risk assessment; metal(loid)s; physiologically based extraction test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875979919     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.708276     Document Type: Article

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