Domestic duck eggs: An important pathway of human exposure to PBDEs around E-waste and scrap metal processing areas in Eastern China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9258-9266

  Labunska, Iryna ^a   Harrad, Stuart ^b   Santillo, David ^a   Johnston, Paul ^a   Yun, Lai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c 3 F Julong Office Building   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; DIETARY COMPONENTS; DIETARY INTAKES; DOMESTIC DUCKS; E-WASTE RECYCLING; ELECTRONIC WASTE (E WASTE); HUMAN EXPOSURES; METAL PROCESSING;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; WASTES;

POULTRY;

LIPID; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD INTAKE; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECYCLING; SPERM; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CHICKEN; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC FOWL; DUCK; EGG; EGG YOLK; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METAL INDUSTRY; NONHUMAN; RECYCLING; SPERMATOGENESIS; WEIGHT; WORKSHOP;

CHINA; LUQIAO; TAIZHOU; WENLING; ZHEJIANG;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DUCKS; EGGS; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS;

EID: 84882647158     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402300m     Document Type: Article

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