Environmental medicine in context

Environmental Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-21

  Ayres, Jon G ^a   Harrison, Roy M ^b   Maynard, Robert L ^a   McClellan, Roger O ^c   Nichols, Gordon L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Toxicology and Human Health Risk Analysis   (United States)

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