Plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the Cree of northern Quebec, Canada: Results from the multi-community environment-and-health study

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 818-828

  Liberda, Eric N ^a   Tsuji, Leonard J S ^b   Martin, Ian D ^b   Cote, Suzanne ^c   Ayotte, Pierre ^c,d   Dewailly, Eric ^d   Nieboer, Evert ^e  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age variation; Geographic variation; Organochlorine pesticides; PBDEs; PCBs; Subarctic First Nation

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; IMPURITIES; INSECTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AGE VARIATION; FIRST NATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PBDES; PCBS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ALDRIN; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MIREX; NONACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PLASMA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY BURDEN; CANADA; CHILD; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

CANADA; EEYOU ISTCHEE; JAMES BAY; QUEBEC [CANADA];

AGE VARIATION; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PBDES; PCBS; SUBARCTIC FIRST NATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; QUEBEC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887147503     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.048     Document Type: Article

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